Greetings!
The September 2008 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In September's newsletter, we feature: articles and essays by E. Kofi Agorsah,
Thomas Butler, Jane Eva Baxter, John D. Burton, John Ringquist, Marty Wild,
and Zacharys Anger Gundu; a compiled list of recent dissertations in African
diaspora archaeology and history; news reports and announcements; and book
and media reviews by James G. Gibb, Christopher Espenshade, John Roby, and
B. R. Fortenberry. 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.
Cheers,
Chris
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September 2008 Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
Archaeological Investigation of Historic Kormantse, Ghana: Cultural Identities,
by E. Kofi Agorsah and Thomas Butler
Constructing Class and Community: Shifting Meanings in the Built Environment
at Polly Hill Plantation, Bahamas, by Jane Eva Baxter and John D. Burton
Kongo Iron: Symbolic Power, Superior Technology and Slave Wisdom, by John
Ringquist
Pragmatic Decisions in Equal Rights: History of an African-American Community
in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, by Marty Wild
Archaeology in the Nigerian University: International Lessons and Emerging
Curriculum Issues, by Zacharys Anger Gundu
** News and Announcements **
Recent Dissertations on Archaeology and History
Neglected: Some Say the U.S. is Ignoring the Commemoration of the Slave
Trade's End, by Vanessa E. Jones
Finalists for the 2008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
eBlack Studies Workshop Proceedings Available
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
Monticello Plantation Databases Updated
New Books: Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia; Asen, Ancestors, and
Vodun; Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success; Liverpool and
Transatlantic Slavery; Reparations to Africa
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
Slavery and the Slave Trades in the Indian Ocean and Arab Worlds: Global
Connections and Disconnections
Slave Routes: Resistance, Abolition & Creative Progress
Archaeology of the Recent African-American Past
Africa, Diaspora & Pan-African Agendas
The 19th Century and the New Frontiers of Slavery and Freedom
Brokers of Change, Atlantic Commerce and Cultures in Pre-Colonial "Guinea of
Cape Verde"
** Book Reviews **
Review of "Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia," by
James G. Gibb
Review of "The Potters of Buur Heybe, Somalia," by Christopher Espenshade
Review of "Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the
Americas, 1585-1660," by John Roby
Review of "The Atlantic World: A History, 1400-1888," by B. R. Fortenberry
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