Environmental Racism (Other Keyword)
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In 1989, anthropologist Bruce G. Trigger (1937-2006) successfully showed archaeology to be a conduit for social power. What he did not elaborate on was that archaeology largely represents a racialized form of power insofar as most archaeologists are white and those whose past they "study" are largely minority Indigenous peoples. Further, while Trigger considered archaeology a bourgeois pursuit, he did not adequately account for the near wholesale commercialization of archaeology in the form of...
Mose In the Middle: Terrestrial and Maritime Methods Meet In St. Augustine, An Update (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The site of Fort Mose in St. Augustine, Florida, faces considerable environmental threat. Remains of the fort are located on a small hammock north of the colonial city. Once connected to the mainland by agricultural fields, the fort was isolated by dredging in the early 20th century, and now storm...
Where Have All of the Artifacts Gone: Examining the Impact of Structural and Environmental Racism on Site Preservation (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A standard truism in archaeology is that studies that reveal no new material data are as important as those that recover many artifacts and features. This paper examines what this truism means when—by all accounts—data should have been recoverable but was not. Archaeological surveys of the Black neighborhoods from the former West Virginia coal towns of...