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Greetings! The December 2009 Newsletter is now available online at: http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html In December's newsletter, we feature: articles by Mark W. Hauser, Jerome Handler, J. W. Joseph, Richard Price, Christopher P. Barton, Edmund Gabay, Jr., and Akujobi Remi; news reports and announcements; and book reviews by Audrey R. Dawson, Christopher Schmidt, Richard Bond, and James H. Watkins. A table of contents is set out below. Please contact me 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 and Newsletter. This Newsletter is published quarterly, in March, June, September, and December. Cheers, Chris ******* December 2009 Newsletter ** Articles, Essays, and Reports ** Change in Small Scale Pottery Manufacture in Antigua, West Indies, by Mark W. Hauser and Jerome Handler Springfield, Georgia: A Free African American Community, by J. W. Joseph "Sex, Magic and Murder" -- A Selection from "Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination," by Richard Price Antebellum African-American Settlements in Southern New Jersey, by Christopher P. Barton Coming to America: The First West African Farm Exhibit in the United States, by Edmund Gabay, Jr. Folktales as Means of Transmitting Knowledge on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Nigeria: The Adventure of "Akuye" in Iyuku Community of Edo State, by Akujobi Remi ** News and Announcements ** African-American Museum's "Time Has Come," Says Founding Director, by Carol Castiel Genetic Study Clarifies African and African-American Ancestry The Legacy of an Inhuman Trade at the British Colony of St. Helena, by Michael Binyon New Books and Journal: The Case Against Afrocentrism; Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora; The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians and Their Shared History, 1400-1900; Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories; Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico; Extending the Diaspora: New Histories of Black People; African American Voices: A Documentary Reader, 1619-1877; Slavery, Islam and Diaspora; The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-Currents of the African and Irish Diasporas; Black Religion and Aesthetics: Religious Thought and Life in Africa and the African Diaspora; Sango in Africa and the African Diaspora; Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture During the Era of Abolition; Le Refus de l'esclavitude: Resistances Africaines a la Traite Negriere; Black Camera: The New Series. ** Conferences and Calls for Papers ** Society for Historical Archaeology, Forty-Third Annual Conference Generations: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space, 2011 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies Bodies, Borders, and Resistance in the African Diaspora: An Interdisciplinary Conference Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space, American Historical Association Meeting The Slave Voyage Database and African Economic History: A Workshop Searching for the African Voice: Studying Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa Slaves' Stories, Special Issue of "Transatlantica" Journal. ** Book and Film Reviews ** Review of "An Archaeology of Black Markets: Local Ceramics and Economies in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica," by Audrey R. Dawson Review of "How Free Is Free? The Long Death of Jim Crow," by Christopher Schmidt Review of "Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827," by Richard Bond Review of "Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South," by James H. Watkins -------------------------- contemp-hist-arch is a list for news and events in contemporary and historical archaeology, and for announcements relating to the CHAT conference group. ------- For email subscription options see: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/contemp-hist-arch.html ------- Visit the CHAT website for more information and for future meeting dates: http://www.contemp-hist-arch.ac.uk --------------------------