Greetings!
The December 2010 Newsletter is now available online at: http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In December's Newsletter, we feature: articles by Matthew Reeves, Carl Steen, Jodi A. Barnes, Jerome S. Handler, Christopher Fennell, Titilayo O. Olukole, and Flordeliz T. Bugarin; news reports and announcements; and book reviews by Patrick H. Morgan, Mark Elliott, and Jeff Donnelly. 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 (ADAN) and Newsletter. This Newsletter is published quarterly, in March, June, September, and December.
With this issue, the ADAN welcomes Christopher Barton as a new co-editor of the quarterly Newsletter. Chris' research and public engagement work includes 19th century African American communities such as Timbuctoo, New Jersey. I also extend my continuing gratitude to John McCarthy, who serves as the book review editor for the Newsletter.
Cheers,
Chris
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December 2010 Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
A Community of Households: Early 19th-Century Enslaved Landscapes at James Madison's Montpelier, by Matthew Reeves
Okra Soup and Earthenware Pots: The Archaeology of Gullah Communities, by Carl Steen and Jodi A. Barnes
The Old Plantation Painting at Colonial Williamsburg: New Findings and Some Observations, by Jerome S. Handler
Archaeological Investigations and LiDAR Aerial Survey in Edgefield, South Carolina, by Christopher Fennell
Cultural Heritage Resources of the New Oyo Empire, Southwestern Nigeria: Prospects for Sustainability, by Titilayo O. Olukole
African and Africanist Archaeologists Voice Their Support of Anthropology at Howard University, by Flordeliz T. Bugarin
** News and Announcements **
Christopher Barton Joins as ADAN Newsletter Co-Editor
Dr. Cheryl LaRoche Receives 2011 John L. Cotter Award by Society for Historical Archaeology
Crossroads and Cosmologies Receives 2010 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities by CGS
Judith Carney, Siddharth Kara, and Richard Rosomoff Share Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Number of Blacks Earning Doctorates Reached an All-Time High in 2009
Racism Plagues Every Society -- UN Reports
On Eve of the International Year for People of African Descent UN Calls for Final End to Racism
Transatlantic Slave Trade Visual Record Online: Updated
Harsh Life of Washington's Slaves at Mt. Vernon Revisited, by Faiza Elmasry
Philadelphia Site Honoring Washington and His Slaves Ready for Dedication, by Stephan Salisbury
New Books and Report: Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade; Challenge of Culture in Africa: From Restoration to Integration; Mississippi in Africa; World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the United States; Archaeology of Louisiana; New Philadelphia: An Archaeology of Race in the Heartland; A Slaveholders' Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic; Race and Slavery in the Middle East; The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration; and The Ceramics Assemblage from the Kingsley Plantation Slave Quarters.
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
Society for Historical Archaeology: Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology
"Black Is . . . Black Ain't": Reconceptualizing the African Diaspora
Black Studies in the Age of Obama: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Black Identity
Crossroads I: The New African Diasporas
Heritage of Memorials and Commemorations
Working in the Big Easy: The History and Politics of Labor in New Orleans
Race, Space and Nature
Society of Caribbean Studies Annual Conference
Creativity and Cultural Expressions in Africa and the African Diaspora
We Carry These Memories Inside of We: 20th Year Anniversary of Daughters of the Dust
Memories of Conflict and Disaster: Oral History and the Politics of Truth, Trauma, and Reconciliation
Moving Communities and Networks in the Era of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Thirdspace Journal: Generations of Feminism
** Book Reviews **
Review of "Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links," by Patrick H. Morgan
Review of "Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation," by Mark Elliott
Review of "Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow," by Jeff Donnelly
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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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