Greetings!
The September 2010 Newsletter is now available online at: http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In September's newsletter, we feature: articles by Edward González-Tennant, Samuel Oluwole Ogundele, Gail Swanson, and Mary R. Bullard; news reports and announcements; a compiled list of new dissertations in archaeology and history; and book reviews by Matthew H. Jennings, Christer Petley, and Erica Johnson. 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 2010 Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
Virtual Archaeology and Digital Storytelling: A Report from Rosewood, Florida, by Edward González-Tennant
Understanding Nigeria within the Context of the Atlantic World, by Samuel Oluwole Ogundele
The Wrecking of the Laden Spanish Slave Ship Guerrero off the Florida Keys, in 1827, by Gail Swanson
A Thatched Cabin on Cumberland Island, Georgia, by Mary R. Bullard
** News and Announcements **
Recent Dissertations on Archaeology and History, by Christopher Fennell
Excavation of Sites such as Timbuctoo, N.J., Is Helping to Rewrite African American History, by DeNeen Brown
Dig Reveals Story of America's Last Slave Ship -- and its Survivors, by Ray Hoffman
Slave Quarters Discovered at Monocacy National Battlefield, by Karen Mudar
Graveyard DNA Rewrites African American History, by New Scientist
Idlewild Listed as Important Historic Site, by Associated Press
New England's Hidden History, by Francie Latour
Tragedy of Slavery Should Give Rise to Respect of Cultural Diversity
United Nations Agency Hails Move to Protect African Folklore and Traditional Knowledge
Denouncing 'Slavery In The Modern Age,' UN Launches Plan Against Human Trafficking
Shannon Lee Dawdy Awarded 2010 MacArthur Fellowship
2010 Douglass Prize Finalists Announced
New Books: Social Archaeologies of Trade and Exchange: Exploring Relationships among People, Places, and Things; Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery; Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas; Encyclopedia of African Religion; Listening to Revolt: Selected Writings of George Rawick; Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic; Reading the World: An African Perspective on World History; The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799-1851; Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora; Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850.
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
African Histories and Diasporas: A Conversation with Robert Farris Thompson
Looking for Angola
American Counterpoint: New Approaches to Slavery and Abolition in Brazil
Pioneering the History of Black Britain: A Conference in Honor of James Walvin
The State of African American Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy, and Research
New Perspectives on African-American History and Culture
Black History at Home and Abroad: Uncovering the Past
Conspicuously Unseen: Invisibility and Denial in Diasporic Communities
International Conference on Enslavement, Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
Fire!!! The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies
Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International
** Book Reviews **
Review of "Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies: Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic," by Matthew H. Jennings
Review of "Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840," by Christer Petley
Review of "Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution," by Erica Johnson
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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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