Editorial

Collaboration and genre
by STACY LEIGH PIGG and MICHAEL J. HATHAWAY

@Ferguson: Still Here in the Afterlives of Black Death, Defiance, and Joy

Introduction:
Still here in the afterlives
by SHANTI PARIKH and JONG BUM KWON

Part 1: Racial Terror and Liberation

Faces of the Movement
by DE NICHOLS

We better pull this wire now
by CHEERAZ GORMON

Crime seen:
Racial terror and the technologies of Black life and death
by SHANTI PARIKH and JONG BUM KWON

Negrophilia
by DAMON DAVIS

Five years later, but centuries in the making:
Ferguson, racial segregation, and fatal interactions with police
by ODIS JOHNSON JR.

My Lens, Our Ferguson
by ADRIAN OCTAVIUS WALKER

Racial‐spatial politics
Policing Black citizens in white spaces and a 21st‐century uprising
by ANDREA S. BOYLES

#ChalkedUnarmed
by MALLORY RUKHSANA NEZAM

Part 2: The Politics of Living and Resisting

Artivist Build, St. Louis
by ELIZABETH VEGA

The politics of being a queer leader during the Ferguson uprising
by ALEXIS TEMPLETON

Humans of St. Louis
by LINDY DREW

Trauma at home:
A queer Black feminist’s experience in the afterlife of state‐sanctioned violence in Ferguson
by CHELSEY R. CARTER

Part 3: Troubling the Future: Whiteness and Black Youth

RIP Son
by CBABI BAYOC

Troubling whiteness:
An interview with Mary Ferguson (Witnessing Whiteness) and Tiffany Robertson (Touchy Topics Tuesday)
by JONG BUM KWON

It Takes Two Generations to Forget
by SARAH PAULSEN

Paradoxes of white moral experience:
Opaque selves, racial suspicion, and the ethics of whiteness
by JONG BUM KWON

Sunshine, Lemons, and Love
by Aziza Binti

Reflections from youth in East St. Louis:
Past, present, and future
by TREASURE SHIELDS REDMOND

Toward decolonizing anthropology’s public spaces
by GINA ATHENA ULYSSE and KENNETH J. GUEST

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Acknowledgments

This forum is dedicated to the memory of people killed by police and other state violence. To their parents, siblings, partners, and other kinfolx, and the bold young leaders and participants of the Ferguson uprising, BLM, and decolonizing movements around the world who courageously challenge state-sanctioned, anti-Black violence and remain committed to theracial justice—we thank you. In preparing this forum, we give special thanks to AE coeditor Stacy Leigh Pigg for providing the initial motivation for this forum and extending creative license to venture outside anthropology’s canonical traditions. Weare inspired by our artivist and academic collaborators, whose work, ideas, critiques, and creativity helped shape this socio-political collage. AE’s outstanding copyeditor, Pablo Morales, deserves endless gratitude for his fine instincts, attention to detail, and patience. Johnelle Lamarque and Kathleen Inglis provided invaluable logistical support in coordinating the manymoving parts of this endeavor. We are grateful to the anonymous peer reviewers for their speedy and incisive comments, and to Washington University in St. Louis for providing financial support for the conference from which this emerged.