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DOCUMENT Citation Only Shelby M Labbe. Faun Horn. J. Lynn Funkhouser.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Public Archaeology and CRM in Louisiana: Making Historical Archaeology Matter", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation reports on preliminary investigations of the Thibodaux Massacre of 1887, a mass casualty event perpetuated by White planters and property owners on striking Black laborers and community members in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Employing methodologies from historic archaeology and forensic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn E Sampeck.

The idea of "nation" in Latin America invoked discussions of ideal citizens. The colonial metamorphosis from social classification—the casta system--to racial thinking centered on defining places, social and geographic, for and by Afro-Latin Americans. In cases such as Cuba, political efforts aimed to end racism and build "raceless" nations, while others, such as Mexico, enthusiastically embraced indigenous heritage but at the same time elided or even rejected African descent, creating what...