Archaeology of Marginalization and Resilience in the Northeast
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2024
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeology of Marginalization and Resilience in the Northeast," at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Historical archaeology in the northeastern United States has a long and vibrant history of identifying and interpreting material histories of communities marginalized by racism and other intersecting forms of violence. Papers in the session add new sites and analyses to this body of work. The focus remains on recovering information about the lives of those ignored, deliberately obscured, and harmed by the dominant society to understand their social positions as well as their resiliency despite living through difficult conditions. These case studies demonstrate many different ways people and communities established solid ground to stand on and advance their interests. These acts provide valuable insight into the strategies used to undermine social violence as well as ways American identities formed on the margins.
Other Keywords
Resilience •
Descendant Community •
Church •
Medicine •
Race •
Dress •
Community •
African Americans •
Monuments •
Landscape
Geographic Keywords
Northeast •
Northeast United States •
New York •
Northeast US •
Upper Mid-Atlantic •
Lenapehoking, presently Northeastern United States •
Northeast America •
Northeastern U.S.A. •
Nunatsiavut •
New York City, Northeast U.S.
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- Documents (13)
- Archaeology of Agricultural Labor Exploitation and Perpetual Debt; Migrant Labor Camps of Suffolk County, New York (1943-2000) (2024)
- Black Consumerism, Social Life, and a Rising Middle Class in 19th-Century New Jersey (2024)
- Chief Corner Stones: Expressions of Choice and Resistance in the AME Zion Church (2024)
- Decolonizing monument making in Newark, NJ: the Harriet Tubman Memorial (2024)
- Inuit and American Assemblages of a Cold War Radar Base (2024)
- Known as a Welcoming Place: The Construction of Community and Memory in a Black Summer Community, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, 1870 – 1950 (2024)
- Medicine and Resilience in a Free Black community in New Jersey (2024)
- New Perspectives on Descendant Community Engagement: Research at the Catoctin Ironworks Furnace (2024)
- Object Histories: A Lead Kosher Seal From New York City’s Five Points (2024)
- Resilience and Resistance through Reclamation Storytelling (2024)
- Restoring Sacred Spaces: Archaeology of Cemeteries Associated with Marginalized Groups in New York City (2024)
- Self-Sufficiency in Seneca Village (2024)
- Unearthing Black Ecologies in Lenapehoking (2024)