Race and the genteel consumer: Class and African-American consumption, 1850–1930

Mullins, Paul R.

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“…With increasing intensity throughout the nineteenth century, middle class Americans used material culture, including dishes, to reflect the character, ambitions, and success of its owners, and white ceramics were considered especially effective conveyers of power and success (Andrews and Fenton 2001, pp. 123-131;Fitts 1999, p. 49;Miller 1980, p. 4;Mullins 1999aMullins , p. 240, 2001Wall 1999, pp. 110-114;Yentsch 1991, pp.…”

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Colonowhen, Colonowho, Colonowhere, Colonowhy: Exploring the Meaning behind the Use of Colonoware Ceramics in Nineteenth-Century Manassas, Virginia

Galke¹

2009

Int J Histor Archaeol

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This paper explores the meaning and use of colonoware ceramics recovered from six archaeological sites dating from the nineteenth-century at Manassas, Virginia. Americans, both free and enslaved, occupied this landscape. Archaeological investigations have recovered colonoware at some nineteenthcentury domestic sites but not others. The occurrence of colonoware at these sites is patterned: colonoware in nineteenth-century Manassas was not an "ethnic" marker denoting peoples of African descent, but rather a social marker that distinguished enslaved people from free. People of free and enslaved status attributed negative connotations to colonoware. Enslaved servants employed colonoware out of economic necessity, not as a way to express ethnicity.

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“…214-215). Black Americans desired to participate in middle class American consumer culture equitably (Mullins 1999a(Mullins , pp. 34-35, 1999cSingleton 2001;Walker 1986), and ceramics provided one arena in which Americans could express their ambitions and accomplishments.…”

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Colonowhen, Colonowho, Colonowhere, Colonowhy: Exploring the Meaning behind the Use of Colonoware Ceramics in Nineteenth-Century Manassas, Virginia

Galke¹

2009

Int J Histor Archaeol

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“…Too often, the story of slavery is relegated to a distinctly Southern plantation model (Wilkie 2004) -an image that historians and archaeologists are actively trying to combat. Archaeological studies of African American experience have spread outward from the Southern plantation to encompass urban spaces (Landon 2007;Mullins 1999;Perry et al 2009), as well as rural sites across the Northeast (Armstrong 2011;Battle-Baptiste 2011;Paynter 1990;Woodruff et al 2007). Much of the archaeology that has been done in Deerfield is not directly related to the African American presence; however, it is hard to separate Black experiences from the history of the town as a whole -a central point of the 'web of community' model described in the Map & Guide.…”

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‘A Web of Community’: Uncovering African American Historic Sites in Deerfield, MA

Sesma

2015

Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage

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“…Still, the typical approach is to foreground one axis of difference or oppression (for exceptions, see Fesler, 1998;Mullins, 1999a;1999b;Otto, 1984;Wall, 1999;Wilkie, 1996;in press). Historical archaeology informed by a Black feminist perspective would involve the simultaneous analysis of different vectors of oppression, including gender.…”

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A Black feminist-inspired archaeology?

Franklin¹

2001

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Archaeology has undergone a transition over the past two decades with the emergence of feminist discourses, and the mapping of women onto archaeological pasts. Yet Black feminist theorizing remains largely external to archaeological theory and practice, even though African-descended peoples constitute a considerable portion of the groups currently researched in the US and the Caribbean. It is a wonder that this is so, given the impressive body of literature that Black feminists have produced over the years regarding a range of topics relating to African-American experiences. I believe that Black feminist scholarship provides potential models for framing questions of difference and inequality, and for critiquing the sociopolitics of archaeology, particularly where raced and gendered representations of the past are concerned. KEYWORDSBlack feminist theory q gender q historical archaeology q race q sociopolitics

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Race and the genteel consumer: Class and African-American consumption, 1850–1930

Cited by 68 publications

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Colonowhen, Colonowho, Colonowhere, Colonowhy: Exploring the Meaning behind the Use of Colonoware Ceramics in Nineteenth-Century Manassas, Virginia

Colonowhen, Colonowho, Colonowhere, Colonowhy: Exploring the Meaning behind the Use of Colonoware Ceramics in Nineteenth-Century Manassas, Virginia

‘A Web of Community’: Uncovering African American Historic Sites in Deerfield, MA

A Black feminist-inspired archaeology?

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