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
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.
“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
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