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The Archaeology of the Recent African American Past
Date: February 27-28, 2009
South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of South Carolina, Columbia

The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology and the
Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina will hold
their first annual Post-Doctoral Fellows Archaeology Conference in February
2009.  The Archaeology of the Recent African American Past is a two-day
conference to be held at the University of South Carolina in Columbia on
Friday, February 27 (9 AM - 5 PM) and Saturday February 28 (9 AM to 4 PM).
The central theme is the plurality of the post-emancipation experiences in
the United States and how the archaeological record can provide insight into
how African peoples experienced freedom in places such as James Island,
South Carolina, Nicodemus, Kansas or New Philadelphia, Illinois.  The
presentations will focus on the painful histories of Reconstruction and Jim
Crow and the more hopeful histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the
building of Black communities, neighborhoods and universities.

Theresa Singleton, an historical archaeologist and foundational scholar in
African diaspora archaeology, and faculty member at Syracuse University, New
York, is the plenary speaker.  The plenary will be held on Saturday
afternoon at the Carriage House of the Robert Mills House & Park (a Historic
Columbia Foundation property) with a reception to follow.

In addition, there will be a museum exhibit and reception at the McKissick
Museum on the University of South Carolina campus on Friday night.  A tour
of African American Heritage sites in Columbia will also be available.

Presentations at the conference include:

Reaching for Freedom, Seizing Responsibility: Archaeology at the Phyllis
Wheatley Home for Girls, Chicago
Anna S. Agbe-Davies, DePaul University

Archaeology of Jim Crow Era African American Life on Louisiana's Sugar
Plantations
David Palmer, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Black History as Property: A Horizon of African American Memorialization
Proposal for The Archaeology of the Recent African American Past
Christopher N. Matthews, Hofstra University

The Cemetery as Focus of Community Identity and Resistance in the Past and
Remembering and Reclaiming the Past in the Present
John P. McCarthy, S&ME, Inc.

Race, Displacement, and 20th Century University Landscapes: An Archaeology
of Renewal and Urban Universities
Paul R. Mullins, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis and
Lewis C. Jones, Indiana University

What Means Gottes Acker?: The 20th Century Obliteration and Revival of an
African-American Story
Leland Ferguson, University of South Carolina

Gibson Grove AME Zion Church Project
Alexandra Jones, University of California, Berkeley

Nicodemus, An Inspiration Beneath the Poppy Mallows
Flordeliz T. Bugarin, Howard University

Archaeological Perspectives on Structural Racism in the Jim Crow Era of the
American Midwest
Christopher C. Fennell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Life and Death on James Island:  Exploration and Protection of the Dill
Sanctuary
Ronald Anthony, Eugene Frazier, Martha Zierden, The Charleston Museum

Constructing Black "Childhood" in Reconstruction Era Dallas: Victorian
Ideals and the Evolving Realities of an Engendered African-America
Megan Teague and James Davidson, University of Florida

An Archaeology of Urban Infrastructure and African-American Achievement in
Annapolis, Maryland during the 20th Century
Matthew M. Palus, Columbia University, New York

From Slave to Citizen on James Island: The Archaeology of Freedom at Fort
Johnson
Carl Steen, Diachronic Research

White Privilege and Archaeology
Jennifer Babiarz, University of Texas, Austin

Challenges and Limitations in African-American Cemetery Studies: An
Archaeological Perspective from the Carolinas
Christina Brooks, Winthrop University

Studies of Commodities in Archaeologies of African American Pasts
Jakob D. Crockett, University of South Carolina

Excavating Inspiration:  Archaeology at the Harriet Tubman Home, Auburn, New
York
Douglas Armstrong, Syracuse University

BaKongo Cosmograms, Christian Crosses, Or None Of The Above:  An Archaeology
of African American Spiritual Adaptations into the 1920s
Kenneth L. Brown, University of Houston


To register for the conference and for additional information, check out the
conference website at: www.cas.sc.edu/SCIAA/postdoc_conf.html or contact
Jodi Barnes at [log in to unmask]


-- 
Jodi Barnes, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow
South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
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803-777-5130



-- 
Jodi Barnes, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow
South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
[log in to unmask]
803-777-5130