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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jodi Barnes.

In ongoing research at Hollywood Plantation, a 19th century rural plantation in southeastern Arkansas, intersectionality, with its roots in Black feminist theory, plays two roles. It is an analytical tool for uncovering intersecting power relations, such as gender, whiteness, and reproductive health, as they emerged in the late 19th century. As patent medicines were increasingly marketed to women, medicine bottles provide a lens into rural upper class white women’s healing practices and the ways...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Adam Kersch.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This research project examines transformations in the relationship between race and biopolitics in Sitka, Alaska, focusing on infectious disease outbreaks over the past 200 years. Specifically, I interrogate the intersection of whiteness and infectious disease and suggest that the politicized concept of whiteness has shifted dramatically. I hypothesize that: 1) over the course of Russian and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry P. Brock. Matthew E. Reeves. Mary F. Minkoff. Christopher Pasch.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will bring attention to possible avenues of inquiry at James Madison’s Montpelier to explore the ways that whiteness was a prevalent factor on the plantation. It will explore the plantation landscape, architecture, and material culture of the Madison family and their white employees who lived at the overseer’s house on the...

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Devlin.

Archaeological interpretations of consumption have long recognized its role in the construction of social identities and in the furtherance of social goals. While much of the historical archaeology of Jamaica, and indeed the Caribbean more broadly, has focused on exploring the consumption choices of enslaved Africans and African descendants, similar studies of archaeologically recovered planter patterns have not received as much attention. Yet, as archaeologies of whiteness are beginning to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia G Markert.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What We Make of the West: Historical Archaeologists Versus Frontier Mythologies", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Frontier myths rely on invisible notions of whiteness and monolithic narratives of movement. In the mid-19th century, Alsatian and German migrants arrived in Texas as part of an empresario-led colonization program. In this paper, I visit the archives, ruins, and oral histories of Alsatian Texas to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey Horning.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Drawing upon my research into two groups commonly described as ‘racialized’: the Irish and southern white mountaineers, I take a Black whiteness approach placing ‘degrees of whiteness’ in conversation with anti-black racism. The normalization of whiteness as a monolithic category obscures oppression within white European-descendant...