Self-Sufficiency, Uplift, and Living Well: Archaeologies of Care in the African Diaspora

Douglas Armstrong has been an important academic mentor and inspiration for many in the field of African Diaspora Archaeology. In this article, I muse about how the concept of “care,” as derived from Critical Disability Studies, is both a potentially generative idea for thinking through African Diaspora archaeologies, but also a fitting descriptor of the role Professor Armstrong has held for many in the field.