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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463699703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8130-5070-7

0-8130-5517-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 p.)

Collana

Co-published with The Society for Historical Archaeology

Disciplina

305.800974

Soggetti

Archaeology and history - Northeastern States

African Americans - Northeastern States - Antiquities

Indians of North America - Northeastern States - Antiquities

Excavations (Archaeology) - Northeastern States

Electronic books.

Northeastern States Race relations History

Northeastern States Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.