Since academe was created, erasure of Black scholars and activists has been a default of almost every field since those fields existed. That’s partly because those fields so often were founded with anti-Black racism as a central principle.
Notions of reparative justice could be incorporated into academic and business practices. It seems to me citation patterns and acts of erasure could be corrected or annotated or supplemented, even if not by their original authors. That might bring erased voices back into conversation.
To riff off Julian Davis Mortenson from another context, it’s straightforward to show deeply rooted anti-Black and anti-race-missing racism at the founding of almost every field since the creation of the university. Erasure was always a key part of that.
