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In September’s newsletter, we feature: articles and essays by E. Kofi Agorsah, Thomas Butler, Jane Eva Baxter, John D. Burton, John Ringquist, Marty Wild, and Zacharys Anger Gundu; a compiled list of recent dissertations in African diaspora archaeology and history; news reports and announcements; and book reviews by James G. Gibb, Christopher Espenshade, John Roby, and B. R. Fortenberry.
The African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter is published quarterly and edited by Christopher C. Fennell, Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. It is free and available online. Below is the TOC:
Articles, Essays, and Reports
Archaeological Investigation of Historic
Kormantse, Ghana: Cultural Identities
by E. Kofi Agorsah and Thomas ButlerConstructing Class and Community:
Shifting Meanings in the Built
Environment at Polly Hill Plantation, Bahamas
by Jane Eva Baxter and John D. BurtonKongo Iron: Symbolic Power,
Superior Technology and Slave Wisdom
by John RingquistPragmatic Decisions in Equal Rights:
History of an African-American
Community in Jo Daviess County, Illinois
by Marty WildArchaeology in the Nigerian University:
International Lessons and Emerging Curriculum Issues
by Zacharys Anger GunduNews and Announcements
Recent Dissertations on Archaeology and History
Neglected: Some Say the U.S. is Ignoring
the Commemoration of the Slave Trade’s End
by Vanessa E. JonesFinalists for the 2008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
eBlack Studies Workshop Proceedings Available
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
Monticello Plantation Databases Updated
New Books
Conferences and Calls for Papers
Slavery and the Slave Trades in the Indian Ocean
and Arab Worlds: Global Connections and DisconnectionsSlave Routes: Resistance, Abolition & Creative Progress
Archaeology of the Recent African-American Past
Africa, Diaspora & Pan-African Agendas
The 19th Century and the
New Frontiers of Slavery and FreedomBrokers of Change, Atlantic Commerce and
Cultures in Pre-Colonial “Guinea of Cape Verde”Book ReviewsReview of “Subfloor Pits and the
Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia”
by James G. GibbReview of “The Potters of Buur Heybe, Somalia”
by Christopher EspenshadeReview of “Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles,
and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660″
by John RobyReview of “The Atlantic World: A History, 1400-1888”
by B. R. Fortenberry