Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2024
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness," at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Historical archaeologists have long studied race, but most of this work has focused on people of color while omitting people racialized as white. This treatment inadvertently normalizes whiteness by positioning it outside of discussions of racial identities instead of approaching white people as racialized individuals who actively participated in perpetuating racist hierarchies that benefited them in a myriad of ways. This session provides case studies that critically explore whiteness in the past and, ideally, how archaeology can be used to subvert understandings of whiteness in the present.
Other Keywords
whiteness •
Race •
History Of Archaeology •
Labor •
Archive •
Plantations •
Cultural Heritage •
Company Towns •
Ceramic Analysis •
community archaeology
Geographic Keywords
New England •
MIDDLE ATLANTIC •
North Carolina •
Southern United States •
West Africa •
Eastern U.S. •
North America and Ireland •
Southwest - Northern Arizona •
Australia/Northern Territory
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