Greetings!
The September 2009 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In September's newsletter, we feature: articles by Andrew Agha, Charles F.
Philips, Jr., Kacie Allen, Liza Gijanto, Hannes Schroeder, Kristrina Shuler,
Annelise Morris, and Maggi M. Morehouse; news reports and announcements;
a compiled list of recent dissertations in archaeology and history; and book
and film reviews by Paula Saunders, Ivor Miller, and Tobias Green. 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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September 2009 Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
Landscapes of Cultivation: Inland Rice Fields as Landscapes and
Archaeological Sites, by Andrew Agha and Charles F. Philips, Jr.
Looking East: Muslim Identity in the Archaeological Record of American
Enslavement, by Kacie Allen
Stabilization and Tourism at the Gambia River's Atlantic Trade Sites: The
James Island Conservation and Survey Project, by Liza Gijanto
A New Approach to Identifying the African Origins of Enslaved Laborers Using
Isotope Analysis of Archaeological Skeletal Remains, by Hannes Schroeder and
Kristrina Shuler
Religion, Social Networks, and Temperance in New Philadelphia, Illinois, by
Annelise Morris
"Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places" Stories of African Diaspora Relocation to the
South, by Maggi M. Morehouse
** News and Announcements **
Recent Dissertations on Archaeology and History, by Christopher Fennell
Lewis Memorial Award to Richard Price's Travels with Tooy
Douglass Prize to Annette Gordon-Reed
Historian Digs for Stories of Black Settlement and Its Massacre, by Audra D. S.
Burch
Slave Route Museum Inaugurated in Matanzas, Cuba, by Hugo GarcĂa
Grants Assist Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Repair Historic
Buildings
IMLS 2009 Grants for African American History and Culture
New Books and Film: African Identity in Asia; Emancipation's Diaspora; Paths
to Freedom; Living History; Livestock, Sugar and Slavery; Nago Grandma and
White Papa; Bloody Writing is for Ever Torn
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
John Brown, Slavery, and the Legacies of Revolutionary Violence in Our Own
Time
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
43rd Annual Conference of the Society for Historical Archaeology
Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South
Impact of the Atlantic World on the "Old Worlds" in Europe and Africa
Portugal and Africa: Accounts, Connections, Identities
Preserving African Cultural Heritage
** Book and Film Reviews **
Review of "Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora," by Paula
Saunders
Review of "Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness," by Ivor Miller
Review of "From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish
South America in the Early Seventeenth Century," by Tobias Green
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