Black Feminist archaeology / Whitney Battle-Baptiste.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Battle-Baptiste, Whitney, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--History.

African American women.

African Americans--Antiquities.

African Americans.

Feminist archaeology--United States.

Feminist archaeology.

African American feminists.

Historic sites--United States.

Historic sites.

Archaeology and history--United States.

Archaeology and history.

Social archaeology--United States.

Social archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Understanding a Black feminist framework

Constructing a Black feminist framework

The Hermitage

Revisiting excavations at Lucy Foster's homestead

The Burghardt women and the W.E.B. Du Bois boyhood homesite

Moving mountains and liberating dialogues.

Notes:

First published 2011 by Left Coast Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9781351573542

1351573543

9781351573559

1351573551

9781315096254

1315096250

9781598746655

1598746650

OCLC:

743694022