Greetings! 
 
The December 2011 Newsletter is now available online at: http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html 
 
In December's newsletter, we feature: articles by Christopher N. Matthews, Wendy Wilson Fall, Courtney Ng, Beth Pruitt, Kathryn Deeley and Mark Leone; news reports and announcements; and a book review by Abidemi Babatunde Babalola. A table of contents is set out below.
 
Please contact our editorial team of Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Kelley Deetz, Christopher Barton, and John McCarthy 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. 
 
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** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
 
Editors' Corner -- Dialogues Across the Diasporas: Intersectional Discourse and the ADAN
 
Introduction to an Extract from War of the Pews: A Personal Account of the St. Augustine Church in New Orleans, by Rev. Jerome G. LeDoux, S.V.D., by Christopher N. Matthews 
 
Crocodiles from Katsina to Madagascar, by Wendy Wilson Fall
 
New Windows on the Past: An Analysis of Glass Artifacts from New Philadelphia, by Courtney Ng
 
New Outlets for Old Foundations: Archaeology in Annapolis and Web-based Outreach, by Beth Pruitt, Kathryn Deeley and Mark Leone
 
** News and Announcements **
 
Rio's Cemetery of "New Blacks" Sheds Light on Horrors of Slave Trade, by Tom Phillips
 
End of Archaeological Surveys Hides History, Some Say, by Robert Behre
 
Archaeology Field Schools
 
Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau, an Exceptional Scholar
 
New Books: The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Postemancipation Life; The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity; John Brown Still Lives! America's Reckoning With Violence, Equality, and Change; Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and the Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War; Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum; Funerals in Africa: Explorations of a Social Phenomenon
 
** Call for Papers and Fellowships **
 
CFP: Dave the Potter, Dave Drake
 
Eurotast Fellowships
 
** Book Review **
 
Review of "West African Archaeology: New Developments, New Perspectives," by Abidemi Babatunde Babalola