The Archaeology of Race

The Archaeology of Race

Author: Debbie Challis

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-05-09

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1780934203

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The Archaeology of Race considers more widely the role of racial theory in archaeology and its contemporary political implications.


The Archaeology of Race in the Northeast

The Archaeology of Race in the Northeast

Author: Christopher N. Matthews

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2015-04-28

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0813055172

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Historical and archaeological records show that racism and white supremacy defined the social fabric of the northeastern states as much as they did the Deep South. This collection of essays looks at both new sites and well-known areas to explore race, resistance, and supremacy in the region. With essays covering farm communities and cities from the early seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century, the contributors examine the marginalization of minorities and use the material culture to illustrate the significance of race in understanding daily life. Drawing on historical resources and critical race theory, they highlight the context of race at these sites, noting the different experiences of various groups, such as African American and Native American communities. This cutting-edge research turns with new focus to the dynamics of race and racism in early American life and demonstrates the coming of age of racialization studies.


Archaeology, Nation and Race

Archaeology, Nation and Race

Author: Raphael Greenberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-03-17

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1009160230

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Grounded in decades of research, this book covers contemporary matters such as the entanglement of race and nationalism with archaeology.


The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America

The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America

Author: Charles E. Orser

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 9780813031439

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"Orser argues that race has not always been defined by skin color; through time its meaning has changed. The process of racialization has marked most groups who came to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America demonstrates ways that historical archaeology can contribute to understanding a fundamental element of the American immigrant experience."--BOOK JACKET.


The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis

The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis

Author: Barbara L. Voss

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008-02-05

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 0520931955

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This innovative work of historical archaeology illuminates the genesis of the Californios, a community of military settlers who forged a new identity on the northwest edge of Spanish North America. Since 1993, Barbara L. Voss has conducted archaeological excavations at the Presidio of San Francisco, founded by Spain during its colonization of California's central coast. Her research at the Presidio forms the basis for this rich study of cultural identity formation, or ethnogenesis, among the diverse peoples who came from widespread colonized populations to serve at the Presidio. Through a close investigation of the landscape, architecture, ceramics, clothing, and other aspects of material culture, she traces shifting contours of race and sexuality in colonial California.


Race and the Archaeology of Identity

Race and the Archaeology of Identity

Author: Charles E. Orser

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Race is not a subject most people associate with archaeological research. Yet because of archaeologists' interest in long time-spans they are perfectly positioned to investigate the "naturalness" of racial designations through time. Race and the Archaeology of Identity brings together twelve of America's most perceptive and talented historical archaeologists. Their focus is on the recent archaeological record--stretching geographically from Jamaica to northern Michigan; their time frame is from colonial days to the late nineteenth century; and their subjects range from frontier fur traders to Victorian city dwellers. Using textual and archaeological sources, contributors explore such topics as the connections of race to economics, the creation and maintenance of institutionalized poverty, the role of race in structuring and guiding intercultural connections, and the importance of race in creating and defining space. Contributors explore such topics as the connections of race to economics, the role of race in structuring and guiding intercultural connections, and the importance of race in creating and defining space.


Black Feminist Archaeology

Black Feminist Archaeology

Author: Whitney Battle-Baptiste

Publisher: Left Coast Press

Published: 2011-07

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1598743791

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Whitney Battle-Baptiste outlines the basic tenets of Black feminist thought for archaeologists and shows how it can be used to improve historical archaeological practice.


Race and Affluence

Race and Affluence

Author: Paul R. Mullins

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-03-31

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0306460890

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An archaeological analysis of the centrality of race and racism in American culture. Using a broad range of material, historical, and ethnographic resources from Annapolis, Maryland, during the period 1850 to 1930, the author probes distinctive African-American consumption patterns and examines how those patterns resisted the racist assumptions of the dominant culture while also attempting to demonstrate African-Americans' suitability to full citizenship privileges.


Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement

Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement

Author: Barbara J. Little

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780759110601

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Little and Shackel use case studies from different regions across the world to challenge archaeologists to create an ethical public archaeology that is concerned not just with the management of cultural resources, but with social justice and civic responsibility.


Race

Race

Author: Denise Eileen McCoskey

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-03-25

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0755697855

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How do different cultures think about race? In the modern era, racial distinctiveness has been assessed primarily in terms of a person's physical appearance. But it was not always so. As Denise McCoskey shows, the ancient Greeks and Romans did not use skin colour as the basis for categorising ethnic disparity. The colour of one's skin lies at the foundation of racial variability today because it was used during the heyday of European exploration and colonialism to construct a hierarchy of civilizations and then justify slavery and other forms of economic exploitation. Assumptions about race thus have to take into account factors other than mere physiognomy. This is particularly true in relation to the classical world. In fifth century Athens, racial theory during the Persian Wars produced the categories 'Greek' and 'Barbarian', and set them in brutal opposition to one another: a process that could be as intense and destructive as 'black and 'white' in our own age. Ideas about race in antiquity were therefore completely distinct but as closely bound to political and historical contexts as those that came later. This provocative book boldly explores the complex matrices of race - and the differing interpretations of ancient and modern - across epic, tragedy and the novel. Ranging from Theocritus to Toni Morrison, and from Tacitus and Pliny to Bernal's seminal study Black Athena, this is a powerful and original new assessment.