Black Feminist Archaeology

Black Feminist Archaeology
Author: Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2011-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1598743791

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.

What this Awl Means

What this Awl Means
Author: Janet Spector
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2009-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0873517571

This pioneering work focuses on excavations and discoveries at Little Rapids, a 19th-century Eastern Dakota planting village near present-day Minneapolis.

Women in Archaeology

Women in Archaeology
Author: Cheryl Claassen
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1994-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780812215090

The fourteen essays in this collection explore the place of women in archaeology in the twentieth century, arguing that they have largely been excluded from "an essentially all-male establishment."

Black Feminist Archaeology

Black Feminist Archaeology
Author: Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351573543

Black feminist thought has developed in various parts of the academy for over three decades, but has made only minor inroads into archaeological theory and practice. Whitney Battle-Baptiste outlines the basic tenets of Black feminist thought and research for archaeologists and shows how it can be used to improve contemporary historical archaeology. She demonstrates this using Andrew Jackson‘s Hermitage, the W. E. B. Du Bois Homesite in Massachusetts, and the Lucy Foster house in Andover, which represented the first archaeological excavation of an African American home. Her call for an archaeology more sensitive to questions of race and gender is an important development for the field.

Black Feminism Reimagined

Black Feminism Reimagined
Author: Jennifer C. Nash
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2018-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478002255

In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how women's studies has both elevated intersectionality to the discipline's primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to feminism's coherence. As intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation, Nash argues that black feminism has been marked by a single affect—defensiveness—manifested by efforts to police intersectionality's usages and circulations. Nash contends that only by letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance, the desire to make property of knowledge, can black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash black feminist theory's visionary world-making possibilities.

The Archaeology of Mothering

The Archaeology of Mothering
Author: Laurie A. Wilkie
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780415945707

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits
Author: The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre:
ISBN: 1616897775

The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois offered a view into the lives of black Americans, conveying a literal and figurative representation of "the color line." From advances in education to the lingering effects of slavery, these prophetic infographics —beautiful in design and powerful in content—make visible a wide spectrum of black experience. W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits collects the complete set of graphics in full color for the first time, making their insights and innovations available to a contemporary imagination. As Maria Popova wrote, these data portraits shaped how "Du Bois himself thought about sociology, informing the ideas with which he set the world ablaze three years later in The Souls of Black Folk."

Engendering African American Archaeology

Engendering African American Archaeology
Author: Jillian E. Galle
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781572332775

The first multiauthor collection to focus on archaeology and the construction of gender in an African American context.

The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology

The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology
Author: Charles E. Orser, Jr.
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1039
Release: 2020-07-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351786245

The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology is a multi-authored compendium of articles on specific topics of interest to today’s historical archaeologists, offering perspectives on the current state of research and collectively outlining future directions for the field. The broad range of topics covered in this volume allows for specificity within individual chapters, while building to a cumulative overview of the field of historical archaeology as it stands, and where it could go next. Archaeological research is discussed in the context of current sociological concerns, different approaches and techniques are assessed, and potential advances are posited. This is a comprehensive treatment of the sub-discipline, engaging key contemporary debates, and providing a series of specially-commissioned geographical overviews to complement the more theoretical explorations. This book is designed to offer a starting point for students who may wish to pursue particular topics in more depth, as well as for non-archaeologists who have an interest in historical archaeology. Archaeologists, historians, preservationists, and all scholars interested in the role historical archaeology plays in illuminating daily life during the past five centuries will find this volume engaging and enlightening.

Black Feminist Anthropology

Black Feminist Anthropology
Author: Irma McClaurin
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813529264

In the discipline's early days, anthropologists by definition were assumed to be white and male. Women and black scholars were relegated to the field's periphery. From this marginal place, white feminist anthropologists have successfully carved out an acknowledged intellectual space, identified as feminist anthropology. Unfortunately, the works of black and non-western feminist anthropologists are rarely cited, and they have yet to be respected as significant shapers of the direction and transformation of feminist anthropology. In this volume, Irma McClaurin has collected-for the first time-essays that explore the role and contributions of black feminist anthropologists. She has asked her contributors to disclose how their experiences as black women have influenced their anthropological practice in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, and how anthropology has influenced their development as black feminists. Every chapter is a unique journey that enables the reader to see how scholars are made. The writers present material from their own fieldwork to demonstrate how these experiences were shaped by their identities. Finally, each essay suggests how the author's field experiences have influenced the theoretical and methodological choices she has made throughout her career. Not since Diane Wolf's Feminist Dilemmas in the Field or Hortense Powdermaker's Stranger and Friend have we had such a breadth of women anthropologists discussing the critical (and personal) issues that emerge when doing ethnographic research.