Black Feminist Archaeology by Whitney Battle-Baptiste (English) Paperback Book

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Whitney Battle-Baptiste outlines the basic tenets of Black feminist thought for archaeologists and shows how it can be used to improve historical archaeological practice.

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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 W. E. B. 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.

Author Biography

Whitney Battle-Baptiste is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. An historical archaeologist of African and Cherokee descent, she has done fieldwork at Colonial Williamsburg, the Hermitage, the W. E. B DuBois homestead, and other sites. She holds a Ph.D. from University of Texas, Austin and conducts research on plantations in the U.S. Southeast, the materiality of contemporary African American popular culture, and Black Feminist theory and its implications for archaeology.

Table of Contents

Introduction; I: Constructing a Black Feminist Framework; II: The Hermitage; III: Revisiting Excavations at Lucy Foster's Homestead; IV: The Burghardt Women and the W. E. B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite; V: Moving Mountains and Liberating Dialogues

Review

"Battle-Baptiste has wielded her keyboard in bringing awareness to the life stories of those who have too long walked in the shadows and invites us to bear witness to them. In doing so, she provides another crucial perspective to the growing literature on the potentials for transforming archaeological practice and theory, and the rationales for why this is necessary."—from the foreword by Maria Franklin, University of Texas at Austin"Battle-Baptiste takes us on three journeys, through the history of African American life in the U.S., through the history of African American archaeology, and her own journey of as a Black woman making a career in the academy. Her insights emerging from her distinctive Black Feminist approach provide important and novel insights for any scholar interested in the American past and future."—Robert Paynter, University of Massachusetts, Amherst"Battle-Baptiste shows clearly how looking "inward" can provide new questions and new forms of analysis, thus enabling archaeology (as both scientific endeavor and social practice) to move forward in positive ways. This is a good and useful book for any archaeologist, in any subfield, at any level of study."—Carol McDavid, Current Anthropology

Review Quote

"Battle-Baptiste has wielded her keyboard in bringing awareness to the life stories of those who have too long walked in the shadows and invites us to bear witness to them. In doing so, she provides another crucial perspective to the growing literature on the potentials for transforming archaeological practice and theory, and the rationales for why this is necessary."--from the foreword by Maria Franklin, University of Texas at Austin "Battle-Baptiste takes us on three journeys, through the history of African American life in the U.S., through the history of African American archaeology, and her own journey of as a Black woman making a career in the academy. Her insights emerging from her distinctive Black Feminist approach provide important and novel insights for any scholar interested in the American past and future."--Robert Paynter, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Battle-Baptiste shows clearly how looking "inward" can provide new questions and new forms of analysis, thus enabling archaeology (as both scientific endeavor and social practice) to move forward in positive ways. This is a good and useful book for any archaeologist, in any subfield, at any level of study."--Carol McDavid, Current Anthropology new questions and new forms of analysis, thus enabling archaeology (as both scientific endeavor and social practice) to move forward in positive ways. This is a good and useful book for any archaeologist, in any subfield, at any level of study."--Carol McDavid, Current Anthropology

Details ISBN1598743791 Author Whitney Battle-Baptiste Short Title BLACK FEMINIST ARCHAEOLOGY Language English ISBN-10 1598743791 ISBN-13 9781598743791 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2011 Imprint Left Coast Press Inc Place of Publication Walnut Creek Country of Publication United States DEWEY 930.101 Replaced by 9780367150228 Publication Date 2011-07-01 AU Release Date 2011-07-01 NZ Release Date 2011-07-01 US Release Date 2011-07-01 UK Release Date 2011-07-01 Illustrations Illustrations Pages 200 Publisher Left Coast Press Inc Alternative 9781598743784 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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