
Black Feminist Archaeology.
Title:
Black Feminist Archaeology.
Author:
Battle-Baptiste, Whitney.
ISBN:
9781598746655
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (201 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Understanding a Black Feminist Framework -- Chapter I: Constructing a Black Feminist Framework -- Chapter II: The Hermitage -- Chapter III: Revisiting Excavations at Lucy Foster's Homestead -- Chapter IV: The Burghardt Women and the W. E. B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite -- Chapter V: Moving Mountains and Liberating Dialogues -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Black feminist thought has developed in various parts of the academy for over three decades, but has made only minor inroads into archaeological theory and practice. Whitney Battle-Baptiste outlines the basic tenets of Black feminist thought and research for archaeologists and shows how it can be used to improve contemporary historical archaeology. She demonstrates this using Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, the WEB Du Bois Homesite in Massachusetts, and the Lucy Foster house in Andover, which represented the first archaeological excavation of an African American home. Her call for an archaeology more sensitive to questions of race and gender is an important development for the field.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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