Wyoming/Mountain West (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Matthes.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds II: Historical Whitewashing and Modern Reimagining of Rural America’s Fantasy Past", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the present day, race and its imagination remains a prominent force that structures and shapes people's lives as it has in the past. This paper uses the lens of racialization to examine Evanston, Wyoming’s Chinatown community from 1870 to 1922 and as an...