Greetings!
The March 2011 Newsletter is now available online at: http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In March's Newsletter, we feature: articles by W. Stephen McBride, Kim A. McBride, Christopher N. Matthews, Mark P. Leone, Mary Keegan Shia, Kola Adekola, and Cheryl White; a compiled list of archaeological fieldschools concerning African diaspora subjects by Christopher Barton; news reports and announcements; and book reviews by Diane E. Wallman, Oleta Prinsloo, Daniel J. McInerney, and Liam M. Brockey. A table of contents is set out below.
Please contact me or co-editor Chris Barton 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
*******
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
Seizing Freedom: Archaeology of Escaped Slaves at Camp Nelson, Kentucky, by W. Stephen McBride and Kim A. McBride
The Archaeology of Race and African American Resistancey, by Christopher N. Matthews
Archaeologists Find Hidden African Side to Noted 1780s Maryland Building, by Mark P. Leone
Presentation of the Body: Living and Dead, by Mary Keegan Shia
Dynamics of Metal Working Traditions in West Africa, by Kola Adekola
Maroon Archaeology, an Interview with Cheryl White
** News and Announcements **
2011 Archaeological Fieldschools, compiled by Christopher Barton
Many U.S. Blacks Moving to South, Reversing Trend, by Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff
Launch of Website for Slavery Memorial Important Step Forward, Says Ban, by United Nations News
Educators Learn Ways to Impart Lessons of Slavery to Future Generations, by United Nations News
Portsmouth, New Hampshire Memorializes 18th Century African Burying Ground, by Valerie Cunningham
The Thorny Path to a National Black Museum, by Kate Taylor
NOAA, Partners, Launch New Website Highlighting African-American Maritime Heritage, by NOAA
New Books and Film: Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of Biafra and the African Diaspora; The African Diaspora in Asian: Trade Routes and Cultural Memories; The Black Diaspora of the Americas: Experiences and Theories of the Caribbean; Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora; Inventing Africa: History, Archaeology and Ideas; Searching for Buxton (Film).
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
Preservation Conference South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Collective Memory: The Voices of Remembering and the Silences of Forgetting
Brown-Harvard Conference on Slavery and Capitalism
Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts
Remembering Slavery, Forgetting Indenture?
96th Annual ASALH Conference African Americans and the Civil War
ASWAD Sixth Biennial Conference
** Book Reviews **
Review of "The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America," by Diane E. Wallman
Review of "Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America," by Oleta Prinsloo
Review of "Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation," by Daniel J. McInerney
Review of "The Problem of Evil" and "African-American Activism before the Civil War," by Oleta Prinsloo
Review of "The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History," by Liam M. Brockey
***************************************
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
|
