Greetings!
The June 2011 Newsletter is now available online at: http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In June's Newsletter, we feature: articles by Dana Rush, Megan Springate, David Palmer, and Blue Nelson; a compiled list of graduate programs in African diaspora archaeology by Christopher Barton; news reports and announcements; and book reviews by Kevin Farmer, Jane Baxter, John Mazzeo, Carol McDavid, and John Cimprich. A table of contents is set out below.
Please contact our editorial team of Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Kelley Deetz, Christopher Barton, and John McCarthy 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 (ADAN) and Newsletter. This Newsletter is published quarterly, in March, June, September, and December.
Cheers,
Chris
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** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
In Remembrance of Slavery: Tchamba Vodun, by Dana Rush
Coffin Handles from the African Burial Ground New York City: Notes on Their Source and Context, by Megan E. Springate
Marsh House Slave Quarters at Avery Island, Louisiana, by David T. Palmer
Structural Racism and the Destruction of Santos, Florida, by Blue Nelson
** News and Announcements **
Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Kelley Deetz Contribute as New ADAN Newsletter Editors
Graduate Programs in African Diaspora Archaeology, compiled by Christopher Barton
New Books and Journal: Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images; Reparations to Africa; The Demise of Slavery in Southwestern Morocco, 1860-2000: Economic Modernization and Transformation of Social Hierarchy; Sorcery in the Black Atlantic; Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage.
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
Society for Historical Archaeology, Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology
Africa and People of African Descent: Issues and Actions to Re-envision the Future
Fifth Annual Michigan State University, Africanist Graduate Student Conference
Black Resistance in an Age of Revolution: Symposium Commemorating the Bicentennial of the 1811 Slave Uprising in Territorial Louisiana
International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora of the Americas
CLAW Conference: Race, Gender, and Sexualities in the Atlantic World
Uniting the Histories of Slavery in North America
** Book Reviews **
Review of "An Archaeology of Black Markets: Local Ceramics and Economics in Eighteenth Century Jamaica," by Kevin Farmer
Review of "The Migration of People from the Caribbean to the Bahamas," by Jane Eva Baxter and John Mazzeo
Review of "Oxon Hill Manor: The Archaeology and History of "A World They Made Together," by Carol McDavid
Review of "The Quarters and the Fields: Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South," by John Cimprich
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Christopher C. Fennell
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Head
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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