Southwest - Northern Arizona (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy S. Maddock.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Depression-era company town and logging community of Apex, Arizona was staffed and occupied almost exclusively by White lumberjacks of Scandinavian descent. Archival research indicates that the community’s racial and ethnic makeup was by design, given the Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company’s staunch refusal to hire African Americans...