I, Too, Am America: Archaeological Studies of African-American LifeTheresa A. Singleton University of Virginia Press, 1999 - 368 pages The moral mission archaeology set in motion by black activists in the 1960s and 1970s sought to tell the story of Americans, particularly African Americans, forgotten by the written record. Today, the archaeological study of African-American life is no longer simply an effort to capture unrecorded aspects of black history or to exhume the heritage of a neglected community. Archaeologists now recognize that one cannot fully comprehend the European colonial experience in the Americas without understanding its African counterpart. This collection of essays reflects and extends the broad spectrum of scholarship arising from this expanded definition of African-American archaeology, treating such issues as the analysis and representation of cultural identity, race, gender, and class; cultural interaction and change; relations of power and domination; and the sociopolitics of archaeological practice. "I, Too, Am America" expands African-American archaeology into an inclusive historical vision and identifies promising areas for future study. |
Contents
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Colonoware Pottery Chesapeake Pipes and Uncritical Assumptions | 83 |
Marks | 116 |
Africanist Perspectives on Diaspora Archaeology | 132 |
The Social and Spatial Order | 159 |
Free Artisans in the Monticello Community | 193 |
Museums and American Slavery | 240 |
Earliest Free AfricanAmerican Town in the United States | 261 |
The Archaeology of TwentiethCentury | 283 |
Artifacts Ethnicity and the Archaeology of African Americans | 299 |
References | 311 |
Contributors | 351 |
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