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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Slow Archaeology + Fast Capitalism: Hard Lessons and Future Strategies from Urban Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Nelson Algren (1951) famously titled Chicago the "city on the make”: an urban center self-servingly and frenetically driven by its hustlers. In cities like Chicago, a similar ethos can propel construction projects, often at the expense of cultural resources and archaeological...
Chicago’s Gray House as Underground Railroad Station?: Narrating Resistance, 1856-present (2018)
The Gray House stands within Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood. Known for his anti-slavery stance, John Gray was Cook County’s first Republican sheriff, and a legend arose designating his home a station on the Underground Railroad. As an archaeological project at the site commences, its environs on Chicago’s northwest side feature an emerging network of clandestine routes and collective resistance, focused this time on a population at high risk of federal immigration raids. This paper...
Evidence of a Lost Cause, Fire, and Great Migration all Bound-Up in Redlines: A Century-and-a-Half of Archaeological Evidence from Chicago’s Bronzeville Neighborhood (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Neighborhoods and Communities (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Chicago’s Bronzeville Neighborhood generated and preserved deposits dating to the Civil War when Camp Douglas--a training/POW facility--existed in the area. In part, these deposits document the origins of the Lost Cause narrative, the consequences of the Jim Crow South, and the...
Mecca Flat Blues: Architecture, Archaeology, and Urban Renewal (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Jimmy Blythe wrote “Mecca Flat Blues” in 1924, capturing the centrality of the building’s South Side neighborhood to Chicago’s Black community and jazz scene. Constructed in 1892 as an exemplar of courtyard-style urban living, the Mecca began as a failed hotel for the 1893 World’s Fair. Transformed into...
Restaurants, Businesses, and Graveyards: Mapping the "Resettlement" of Japanese Americans in Chicago, 1943-1950 (2017)
The forced dislocation of West Coast Japanese Americans to incarceration camps during WWII deeply affected community formation, leadership, and livelihoods. The dislocation had barely been carried out when the War Relocation Authority (WRA) conceived and put into action a program of controlled (re)movement east. This "resettlement" did not play out as administrators had hoped. This paper traces the resettlement of Japanese Americans in Chicago during and immediately after the war (1943-1950),...