Making Race Women: Intellectual and Material Contributions to Understanding Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Deepening Archaeology's Engagement with Black Studies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

One powerful reason to integrate Black Studies and archaeology is to align archaeological analysis of sites occupied by Black people with the aims, imperatives, and perspectives that their descendants and other stakeholders might find relevant. This paper follows the lead of researchers like Brittney Cooper who encourage us to see Black people in the early twentieth century not only as subjects but as scholars, analysts, and public intellectuals whose work can help provide the theoretical basis for understanding their times. Pauli Murray and Elizabeth Lindsay Davis are among the theorists whose work has helped guide my thinking about the material, everyday practice of citizenship among Black Americans in the early twentieth century.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Deepening Archaeology's Engagement with Black Studies   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36333.0