Greetings!
The June 2010 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In June's newsletter, we feature: articles by Kari Lentz, Megan E.
Springate, Kelley Deetz, Gail Swanson, and Patrice L. Jeppson; news
reports and announcements; a compiled list of graduate programs in
African diaspora subjects; and book reviews by Teresa S. Moyer,
Monique Fowler, Paul Kerman, Kirt Von Daacke, Andrea Lepage,
Jacqueline-Bethel T. Mougoue, Isaac Land, Kristine Frank Elias, Matthew
F. Rarey and Alyson Williams. 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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June 2010 Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
Obscuring the Inequalities of Slavery: Identifying Differential Access to
Ceramics at Monticello, by Kari Lentz
The Sexton's House Has a Ritual Concealment: Late 19th-Century
Negotiations of Double Consciousness at a Black Family Home in
Sussex County, New Jersey, by Megan E. Springate
Diggin' Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima: Battling Myth through Archaeology,
by Kelley Deetz
The Loss of the Slave Ship "Fly" at the Florida Keys in 1789, by Gail
Swanson
2010 "Black History Showcase" Features African American Archaeology,
by Patrice L. Jeppson
** News and Announcements **
Graduate Programs in African Diaspora Archaeology, by Christopher
Fennell
University of Virginia Online Bibliography of Slavery, by Joseph C. Miller
New Books, Exhibit, and Film: In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's
Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World; Discovering Black Vermont:
African American Farmers in Hinesburgh, Vermont, 1790-1890; The Akan
Diaspora in the Americas; The African Diaspora and the Disciplines;
African Systems of Slavery; Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: Contested
Terrain in Colonial Jamaica; African Continuum: Sacred Ceremonies and
Rituals; Slave Routes: Resistance, Abolition and Creative Progress
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
Journal of Pan African Studies, Special Issue: Revisiting Franz Fanon
Emerging Perspectives in African Studies, Africanist Graduate Student
Conference
Examining Race in the 21st Century
Enslavement, Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World
State of African American Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy, and
Research
Peoples, Publics, and Places of the Souths
Artistry of African/Diaspora Blacksmiths
Africa in World Politics
Abolishing Slavery in the Atlantic World
Bloodwork: The Politics of the Body, 1500-1900
Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting
African Liberation and Black Power, 6th Biennial Conference of ASWAD
** Book Reviews **
Review of "John Brown Photo Chronology: Catalog of the Exhibition at
Harpers Ferry," by Teresa S. Moyer
Review of "African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present,"
by Monique Fowler and Paul Kerman
Review of "Slavery, Resistance, Freedom," by Kirt Von Daacke
Review of "Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual
Practice in the Seventeenth Century," by Andrea Lepage
Review of "Africa after Gender?" by Jacqueline-Bethel T. Mougoué
Review of "Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic
Slave Trade Database," by Isaac Land
Review of "Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art," by Kristine
Frank Elias
Review of "Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern
Times," by Matthew F. Rarey and Alyson Williams
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Christopher C. Fennell
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Head (eff. Aug. 2010)
Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois
109 Davenport Hall, MC-148
607 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
http://www.anthro.illinois.edu/faculty/cfennell
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