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Hearth and Home: Preserving a People's Culture
Dell Upton,George W. McDaniel +1 more
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This article is published in Technology and Culture.The article was published on 1983-04-01. It has received 23 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hearth.read more
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“Power to the people”: Sociopolitics and the archaeology of black Americans
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the sociopolitics of African-American archaeology and encourage the black community to take an interest in archaeological endeavors, and raise their level of awareness to the challenges we face, and increasing understanding as to the variable histories and perspectives that the diverse and knowledgeable black American public possesses.
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“The little spots allow’d them”: The archaeological study of African-American yards
Barbara J. Heath,Amber Bennett +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence of yards associated with New World slave quarters and presented a framework for analysis, and results of recent excavations at a slave quarter at Poplar Forest in central Virginia, occupied from ca. 1790 to 1812, were presented within the context of this framework.
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Race and the genteel consumer: Class and African-American consumption, 1850–1930
TL;DR: The authors demonstrate that African-American consumers actively sought the opportunities consumer culture promised and articulated an anti-racist class struggle in consumer space, and that African Americans were caricatured as being racially unsuited to those citizen privileges in consumption and labor space.
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Power runs in many channels : subfloor pits and West African-based spiritual traditions in colonial Virginia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined physical characteristics and artifact assemblages from subfloor pits in colonial Virginia to determine subfloor pit functions and found evidence that these pits were used in several ways: for food storage, as personal storage spaces, and as West African-style shrines.
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The Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead: Post-Emancipation Transitions of an African American Family in Central Texas Vol. 1
Douglas K. Boyd,Aaron R. Norment,Terri Myers,Maria Franklin,Nedra K. Lee,Leslie L. Bush,Brian S. Shaffer +6 more
TL;DR: Prewitt et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted an interdisciplinary community-based historic archeological study of the Ransom Williams farmstead from 2005 through 2011 and recovered more than 26,000 artifacts.
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“Power to the people”: Sociopolitics and the archaeology of black Americans
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the sociopolitics of African-American archaeology and encourage the black community to take an interest in archaeological endeavors, and raise their level of awareness to the challenges we face, and increasing understanding as to the variable histories and perspectives that the diverse and knowledgeable black American public possesses.
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“The little spots allow’d them”: The archaeological study of African-American yards
Barbara J. Heath,Amber Bennett +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence of yards associated with New World slave quarters and presented a framework for analysis, and results of recent excavations at a slave quarter at Poplar Forest in central Virginia, occupied from ca. 1790 to 1812, were presented within the context of this framework.
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Race and the genteel consumer: Class and African-American consumption, 1850–1930
TL;DR: The authors demonstrate that African-American consumers actively sought the opportunities consumer culture promised and articulated an anti-racist class struggle in consumer space, and that African Americans were caricatured as being racially unsuited to those citizen privileges in consumption and labor space.
Book
Power runs in many channels : subfloor pits and West African-based spiritual traditions in colonial Virginia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined physical characteristics and artifact assemblages from subfloor pits in colonial Virginia to determine subfloor pit functions and found evidence that these pits were used in several ways: for food storage, as personal storage spaces, and as West African-style shrines.
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The Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead: Post-Emancipation Transitions of an African American Family in Central Texas Vol. 1
Douglas K. Boyd,Aaron R. Norment,Terri Myers,Maria Franklin,Nedra K. Lee,Leslie L. Bush,Brian S. Shaffer +6 more
TL;DR: Prewitt et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted an interdisciplinary community-based historic archeological study of the Ransom Williams farmstead from 2005 through 2011 and recovered more than 26,000 artifacts.