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

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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