The River Street Digital History Project
Author(s): William White
Year: 2015
Summary
Race relations remains a central issue in American politics, economics, and culture. Interactions between African Americans and Euroamericans has been a focal point of historical archaeology for the last 30 years. The River Street Digital History Project is centered on the River Street Neighborhood in Boise, Idaho, which was the historical home for most of the town’s non-white population. This research asks: what role did race play in the lives of River Street Neighborhood residents; how did the racialization of African Americans by Euroamericans effect the creation of whiteness as a racial construct, and how was the development of the neighborhood influenced by race?
The 2014 fieldwork for the River Street Digital History project resulted in the creation of a website designed to disseminate digital copies of existing archival data, short segments of newly collected oral history interviews, and photographs from private collections. This poster summarizes these results.
Cite this Record
The River Street Digital History Project. William White. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Seattle, Washington. 2015 ( tDAR id: 434125)
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Keywords
General
African Americans
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Archival Research
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Euroamericans
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internet archaeology
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Racialization
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
late 19th and 20th centuries
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): 207