The archaeology of race in the Northeast /edited by Christopher N. Matthews and Allison Manfra McGovern.

The archaeology of race in the Northeast /edited by Christopher N. Matthews and Allison Manfra McGovern. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2015. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

The archaeology of race in the Northeast: an introduction / Part I. Archaeologies of African Americans in the Northeast -- Looking for Africans in Seventeenth-century New Amsterdam / Guineatown in the Hudson Valley's Hyde Park / The racialization of labor in early Nineteenth-century Upstate New York: archaeology at the Rose Hill Quarter Site, Geneva, New York / "The character of a woman": womanhood and race in Nineteenth-century Nantucket / Josiah Eddy, Richard Allen, and the complexity of the past: thoughts on African-American identity in Nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Race and remembering in the Adirondacks: accounting for Timbucto in the past and the present / Construction of identity in an African American activist community in Albany, New York: the trajectories of racialization and community formation / The Hunterfly Road houses and the evolution of Weeksville, an African American community in Brooklyn, New York / A practice theory of improvisation at the African American community of Timbuctoo, Burlington County, New Jersey / Part II. Native American historical archaeologies -- Facing "the end": termination and survivance among the Montaukett of Eastern Long Island, New York / Race-based differences and historical archaeologies in indian New England / Part III. Archaeologies of whiteness in the Northeast -- Whiteness and the transformation of home, work, and self in early New York / Materiality, white public space, and historical commemoration in Nineteenth-century Deerfield Massachusetts / An archaeology of accountability: recovering and interrogating the "invisible" race / Reflection: The tyranny of silence and invisibility / Christopher N. Matthews and Allison Manfra McGovern -- Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall -- Christopher R. Lindner and Trevor A. Johnson -- James A. Delle and Kristen R. Fellows -- Teresa Dujnic Bulger -- Rebecca Yamin and Grace H. Ziesing -- Hadley Kruczek-Aaron -- Corey D. McQuinn -- Joan H. Geismar -- Christopher P. Barton and David G. Orr -- Allison Manfra McGovern -- Russell G. Handsman -- Christopher N. Matthews -- Quentin Lewis -- Meg Gorsline -- Charles E. Orser Jr.

This collection of essays looks at evidence from both new sites and well-known areas to explore race, resistance and supremacy in the Northeast, showing that such issues defined the social fabric of the Northeast as much as in the Deep South.



9780813055176


Archaeology and history--Northeastern States.
African Americans--Antiquities.--Northeastern States
Indians of North America--Antiquities.--Northeastern States
Excavations (Archaeology)--Northeastern States.


Electronic Books.

F106 / .A734 2015