Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Land Ownership among Freed African American Farmers: The View from Ceramic Use at the Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead, Manchaca, Texas

Lee, Nedra K.

doi:10.1007/s41636-020-00239-3

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“…The violence of settler colonialism has long been a topic of archaeological interest, and archaeologies of freedom-making and Black sovereignty bring into stark relief how ideologies of white supremacy and structural racism have stifled advances of free peoples. Building on a robust tradition of African Diasporic studies, archaeologies of freedom-making are now blossoming in their own right-illuminating battles for belonging alongside processes of displacement, dispossession, and violence (Barnes, 2011;Fennell, 2010;Gray, 2019;Lee 2019Lee , 2020Matthews and McGovern, 2015;Shackel, 2011;Wall, Rothschild, and Copeland, 2008;Weik 2019). These are poignant new avenues of archaeological inquiry, though it remains to be seen how similar emancipatory projects manifest themselves outside the American racial state or instances of marronage.…”

Section: Diasporic Race-making In Back-to-africa Liberiamentioning

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Aspirational architecture and AK‐47s: Fragmented violence in Liberia from settlement to the contemporary

Reilly

Banton

Stevens³

2023

American Anthropologist

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Global awareness of Liberia's recent past is largely limited to the long-term bloodshed that erupted with a 1980 coup and the civil conflict that followed soon thereafter (1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003). What remains understudied is how recent episodes of violence are tethered to the decades following Liberia's founding as a settler colony of the American Colonization Society in 1822. Our collaborative Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology (BAHA) project, the first to archaeologically investigate the Back-to-Africa movement, explores processes of nineteenth-century settlement at sites established by West Indians and Black Americans. In this article, we focus on the Barbadiansettled township of Crozierville to highlight the complex ways in which materials associated with the colonizing project are linked to vestiges of recent violence that persist on the postwar landscape. With a specific focus on settler-community architecture, in addition to the material vestiges of civil conflict, this article highlights the need to understand recent episodes of violence through Liberia's unique history of Back-to-Africa settlement and the Black/African Diaspora.

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Section: Diasporic Race-making In Back-to-africa Liberiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Aspirational architecture and AK‐47s: Fragmented violence in Liberia from settlement to the contemporary

Reilly

Banton

Stevens³

2023

American Anthropologist

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“…Of course, class position and wealth played a role in who was able to attend school as well as in the resources that were devoted to a school (Agbe-Davies & Martin 2013;Beisaw & Gibb 2009;Praetzellis & Praetzellis 2012, p. 348). Studies of Black wealth and entrepreneurship contradict stubborn narratives about poverty (Fennell 2010;Handsman 2019;Lee 2019Lee , 2020Shackel 2011). Studies of midcentury suburban landscapes serve to balance our stereotypes of contemporary African America as exclusively "urban" (Mullins 2017).…”

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African American Archaeology, for Now

Agbe-Davies

2022

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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A focus on institutions frames this examination of the archaeology of African America. While initially emphasizing the institution of slavery and theories of Black difference, the field today has a much wider scope. Researchers engaged in this work critically examine past and present-day institutions. As such, this review also considers the place of African American archaeology in engaged scholarship, critical theory, and self-reflexive practice. As in past reviews, the emphasis is on the United States, with occasional references to important work in the rest of the African diaspora. African American archaeology is shown to be inextricably interwoven with scholarly work in North American archaeology, African American studies, heritage studies, and social theory. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology Volume 51 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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“…The shift from using “African American” to “African diaspora” archaeology to define this genre underscores its global reach (e.g., Fennell 2010 ). Research programs have also expanded to address the diversity of Black experiences not only across space but time, as more of us explore life after emancipation and the “materiality of freedom” (Barnes 2011 ; see also Davidson 2008 ; Lee 2020 ; Leone et al 2005 ; Warner 2015 ; Wilkie 2019 ). African diaspora archaeology also incorporates critical race and Black feminist theories (Agbe-Davies 2014 ; Battle-Baptiste 2011 , 2017 ; Epperson 2004 ; Fennell and White 2017 ; Franklin 2001 ; González-Tennant 2018 ; Lee and Scott 2019 ; McDavid 2007 ; Morris 2017 ; Mullins 1999 ; Orser 2001b ; Wilkie 2003 ), vindicationist scholarship (e.g., Bell 2008 ; Brandon 2008 ; LaRoche and Blakey 1997 ; Mullins 2008 ), and a commitment to partnering with Black communities within the context of research (Joseph 2016 :14; McDavid 2010 ; Reeves 2004 ).…”

Section: The Dual Rise Of African Diaspora Archaeology and Black Reprmentioning

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The Future is Now: Archaeology and the Eradication of Anti-Blackness

Franklin

Dunnavant

Flewellen

et al. 2020

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Building a new anti-racist archaeology will require an unprecedented level of structural changes in the practices, demographics, and power relations of archaeology. This article considers why this iteration of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement is proving to be unique in terms of its potential to transform the field. We discuss how anti-racist archaeologists arrived at this juncture prepared to meet the challenges now before us, and how members of the Society of Black Archaeologists are collaborating with others to enact change. We acknowledge the significant social justice efforts of others and suggest how archaeologists can get involved to keep this critical momentum going.

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Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Land Ownership among Freed African American Farmers: The View from Ceramic Use at the Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead, Manchaca, Texas

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Aspirational architecture and AK‐47s: Fragmented violence in Liberia from settlement to the contemporary

Aspirational architecture and AK‐47s: Fragmented violence in Liberia from settlement to the contemporary

African American Archaeology, for Now

The Future is Now: Archaeology and the Eradication of Anti-Blackness

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