Greetings!
The June 2008 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In June's newsletter, we feature: articles and essays by Akin Ogundiran, Anne
Yentsch, Terrance Weik, Uzi Baram, Jerome S. Handler, Nicholas Honerkamp,
Rachel L. DeVan, Mary C. Beaudry, Alaba Simpson, and Akeia A.F. Benard; a
compiled list of graduate programs in African diaspora archaeology; news
reports and announcements; and book reviews by Fred L. McGhee, Christopher
Espenshade, Zacharys Anger Gundu, and Susan Cooksey. A table of contents
is set out below.
Please contact me if you have essays, analysis papers, book reviews, project
reports, announcements, or news updates that you'd like to contribute to the
African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter. This Newsletter is
published quarterly, in March, June, September, and December. We serve an
expanding readership of over 5,000 per Newsletter issue.
Cheers,
Chris
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June 2008 Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
African Atlantic Archaeology and Africana Studies: A Programmatic Agenda, by
Akin Ogundiran
Excavating the South's African American Food History, by Anne Yentsch
Mexico's 'Cimarron' Heritage and Archaeological Record, by Terrance Weik
A Haven from Slavery on Florida's Gulf Coast: Looking for Evidence of Angola
on the Manatee River, by Uzi Baram
Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Smoking Pipes, Tobacco, and the Middle
Passage, by Jerome S. Handler
Pieces of Chocolate: Surveying Slave and Planter Life at Chocolate Plantation,
Sapelo Island, Georgia, by Nicholas Honerkamp and Rachel L. DeVan
Not Presentism but Honesty: Symposium and Lecture Series at Boston
University Commemorates the 200th Anniversary of the Ending of the US-
Atlantic Slave Trade, by Mary C. Beaudry
Some Reflections on Relics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the Historic
Town of Badagry, Nigeria, by Alaba Simpson
Dissertation Abstract: The Free African American Cultural Landscape:
Newport, RI, 1774-1826, by Akeia A.F. Benard
** News and Announcements **
Graduate Programs in African Diaspora Archaeology, by Christopher Fennell
Society for Georgia Archaeology Publishes Two-Part Volume on African-
American Archaeology, by J. W. Joseph
States Lead Slavery Apology Movement, by Christine Vestal
New Books: Africa, Brazil and the Construction of Trans Atlantic Black
Identities; Themes in West Africa's History
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries
Society for Historical Archaeology 2009 Conference
** Book Reviews **
Review of "The Slave Ship: A Human History," by Fred L. McGhee
Review of "Sampling Many Pots," by Christopher Espenshade
Review of "Archaeology and Culture History in the Central Niger Delta," by
Zacharys Anger Gundu
Review of "For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics," by Susan Cooksey
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