The materiality of freedom : archaeologies of postemancipation life / edited by Jodi A. Barnes.

Other author Barnes, Jodi A.
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxii, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
African Americans--History. --1863-1877.
African Americans--History. --1877-1964.
African Americans--Material culture.
African Americans--Antiquities.
Social archaeology--United States.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
United States--Antiquities.

Contents Foreword / Charles R. Cobb -- Introduction : the materiality of freedom, archaeologies of postemancipation life / Jodi A. Barnes -- Black history as property : a critique of the making of a post-civil rights landscape / Christopher N. Matthews, Eric L. Larsen -- White privilege and silencing within the heritage landscape : race and the practice of cultural resource management / Jennifer J. Babiarz -- Living not so quietly, not so on the edge of things : a twentieth-century Bahamian household / Laurie A. Wilkie, Paul Farnsworth -- Reaching for freedom, seizing responsibility : archaeology at the Phyllis Wheatley Home for Girls, Chicago / Anna S. Agbe-Davies -- Victorian ideals and evolving realities : late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth century black Dallas and an engendered African America / Megan Ann Teague, James M. Davidson -- "A place of recreation of our own" : archaeology of the Boston saloon / Kelly J. Dixon -- Archaeology of Jim Crow-era African American life on Louisiana's sugar plantations / David T. Palmer -- From slave to citizen on James Island : the archaeology of freedom at Fort Johnson / Carl Steen -- Examining structural racism in the Jim Crow era of Illinois / Christopher C. Fennell -- What means Gottesacker? Leading and misleading translations of Salem records / Leland Ferguson -- BaKongo cosmograms, Christian crosses, or none of the above : an archaeology of African Americans spiritual adaptations into the 1920s / Kenneth L. Brown -- Infrastructure and African American achievement in Annapolis, Maryland, during the twentieth century / Matthew M. Palus -- Race, displacement, and twentieth-century university landscapes : an archaeology of urban renewal and urban universities / Paul R. Mullins, Lewis C. Jones -- Excavating inspiration : archaeology at the Harriet Tubman Home, Auburn, New York / Douglas Armstrong -- Epilogue : reflections on archaeologies of postemancipation from a student of slavery / Theresa A. Singleton.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011015291
ISBN9781611170344 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1611170346 (cloth : alk. paper)

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