Spring 2012 Issue of African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

Greetings!

The Spring 2012 Newsletter is now available online at:  
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html

In this Spring's newsletter, we feature: articles by Ayanna Flewellen,  
Justin Dunnavant, Christopher Baas, John Janzen, and David Palmer; a  
compiled list of archaeological fieldschools concerning African  
diaspora subjects by Christopher Barton; news reports and  
announcements; and a book review by Megan Springate. 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, labeled previously as March, June, September, and  
December; starting in March 2012, we label these quarterly issues as  
Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.

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** Articles, Essays, and Reports **

Editors' Corner

Society of Black Archaeologists, by Ayanna Flewellen and Justin Dunnavant

The Effects of the Civil War on Land Ownership and Agricultural  
Production for Freedmen in St. Helena Township, South Carolina: Using  
the Agricultural Census to Evaluate and Interpret Material Culture, by  
Christopher Baas

Teaching the Kongo Transatlantic, by John Janzen

The Ephemerality of African Diasporic Materiality, by David T. Palmer

** News and Announcements **

2012 Archaeological Fieldschools, compiled by Christopher Barton

Bristol Archaeologists Unearth Slave Burial Ground on St. Helena, by  
Andrew Pearson, Ben Jeffs, Annsofie Witkin, and Helen MacQuarrie

Call to Save 'Slave' Cave Carvings at Guy's Cliffe House, by BBC News

Archaeologist, Black Feminist Unearths Contributions of African  
Diaspora, Everyday People, by Max Eternity

Advanced Metal Detecting for the Archaeologist, by Christopher Espenshade

New Books: The Archaeology of Colonialism: Intimate Encounters and  
Sexual Effects; Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian  
Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature; They Left Great Marks  
on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from  
Emancipation to World War I; Cultivating Race: The Expansion of  
Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860; The Slave Trade and the Origins of  
International Human Rights Law; Escape from Texas: A Novel of Slavery  
and the Texas War of Independence.

** Book Review **

Review of "In The Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the  
Atlantic World," by Megan E. Springate




Thanks,
ADAN team

Whitney Battle-Baptiste, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Department of Anthropology
211 Machmer Hall
240 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003
voice: 413.577.0932
fax: 413.545.9494

Author of: Black Feminist Archaeology (Left Coast Press)
http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=327

For scholarworks: works.bepress.com/whitney_battle_baptiste
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