Greetings!
The March 2010 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In March's newsletter, we feature: articles by William C. Schaffer, E.
Kofi Agorsah, James B. Odunbaku, Raphael A. Alabi, Jane Webster,
Allison Manfra McGovern, Robert Marcom, Megan E. Springate, Robert
Farris Thompson, Leonard Todd, and Mosheh Adamu; news reports and
announcements; a compiled list of archaeology fieldschools in African
diaspora subjects; and book reviews by Christopher T. Espenshade,
Matthew F. Rarey, Alyson Williams, and Jill Salmons. 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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March 2010 Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
Bioarchaeological Analysis of Historic Kormantse, Ghana, by William C.
Schaffer and E. Kofi Agorsah
Ditches and Ramparts as Evidence of Warfare Defenses in 19th Century
Yorubaland: A View from Keesi, Southwestern Nigeria, by James B.
Odunbaku and Raphael A. Alabi
A Distant Diaspora: Thinking Comparatively about Origins, Migrations
and Roman Slavery, by Jane Webster
Race and Ethnicity in Early America Reflected through Evidence from the
Betsey Prince Archaeological Site, Long Island, New York, by Allison
Manfra McGovern
Beginnings of the African Diaspora in Texas: A Brief Overview of the
Bernardo Plantation Archaeology Project, by Robert Marcom
Squatters Budgeree: Pipes for the Australian Market Recovered at the
Homestead of a Free Black Family in Sussex County, New Jersey, by
Megan E. Springate
African Influence on the Art of the United States, by Robert Farris
Thompson
"Jars" – A Selection from "Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the
Slave Potter, Dave," by Leonard Todd
A HipHop Paradigm Shift: Redefining African America via Anthropology,
by Mosheh Adamu
** News and Announcements **
2010 Fieldschools Addressing African Diaspora Subjects, by Christopher
Fennell
Roman Remains in York are 'Elite' African Woman, by BBC News
Ghana Dig Reveals Ancient Society, by BBC News
A Burial Ground and Its Dead Are Given Life, by Edward Rothstein
Another African Burial Ground, by Demetria Irwin
Haiti's History as First Black Republic Creates a Special Bond with Many
African-Americans, by Jesse Washington
Groundbreaking for Vesey Monument, by David Slade
Black Schools Restored as Landmarks, by Erik Eckholm
Harriet Tubman Relics to go to D.C. Museum, by Stephan Salisbury
New Books and Journals: African American Life in the Georgia
Lowcountry; Horrible Gift of Freedom; Hills Farm: The Forgotten History
of Slavery in the North; Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation;
Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions; Notes and Records Journal;
Buildings & Landscapes Journal.
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
Many Voices -- One Story? Public History Narratives of Native American
and African American Histories
Eighty-First Annual Meeting of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology
Women's Memory-Work: Gendered Dilemmas of Social Transformation
Imagining Slavery: National Representations of the History of Slavery
and Abolition
Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 95th
Annual Conference: History of Black Economic Empowerment
PanAfrican Archaeological Association and Society of Africanist
Archaeologists: Preserving African Cultural Heritage
Transnational Americas: Difference, Belonging, Identitarian Spaces
20th Annual Conference of Archaeological Association of Nigeria,
Archaeology, Creativity and Heritage Management in Nigeria
Linking Ghana and the Caribbean: Legacies, Memories and Belongings
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies
Women and Gender in Colonial Contexts
** Book Reviews **
Review of "Coming Through: Voices of a South Carolina Gullah
Community from WPA Oral Histories," by Christopher T. Espenshade
Review of "Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico," by Matthew F.
Rarey and Alyson Williams
Review of "Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba," by
Jill Salmons
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