White Privilege and the Archaeology of Accountability on Long Island
Author(s): Meg Gorsline
Year: 2013
Summary
Dating to ca. 1660 and occupied for several generations by a locally prominent family, the Brewster House is revered as the oldest home in a Long Island town keen on memorializing history. An archaeology of accountability reveals another side of the story, one that destabilizes complacent expectations and sanitized interpretations of white middle class homes. Working from Bernbeck and Pollock’s (2007) premise that historical archaeologists must uncover the disturbing parts of history along with the neutral and positive parts, an archaeology of accountability asks how this dominantly-constructed history perpetuates white privilege and seeks to expose a more deeply excavated history.
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White Privilege and the Archaeology of Accountability on Long Island. Meg Gorsline. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428233)
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Keywords
General
accountability
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Memory
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white privilege
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 502