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Abstract: Abstract The second decade of the 20th century saw the beginning of the Great Migration of African Americans to cities such as Chicago. The city’s existing African American community expressed concern for the welfare of girls and women coming to a strange, potentially dangerous, new place and worked to ease their transition to life there. This article employs a “documentary archaeology” approach, using texts from the period to understand material conditions experienced by members of “the Race,” especially women, in Chicago ca. 1920. It includes a special emphasis on space, how people moved through it, and how it was used in struggles for domination and equality. A rumored spatial transgression was the spark for Chicago’s “riot” of 1919. During the violence, Black spaces were decimated. The events, including many deaths, were so shocking that a commission was established at the time to study the Great Migration and its consequences for Chicago. That commission’s report is at the center of the archive consulted for the analysis presented here. Reflecting the ideologies of the era, its analyses emphasized race over gender as a determining factor in the life experiences of female members of the Race. I argue that the spatial distribution of racialized risk was different for women than for men, and, furthermore, that the dangers women faced were chronic rather than acute. PubDate: 2024-07-31
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Abstract: Abstract In this article, I undertake an archaeology of urban “wastelands.” In doing so I ask how such places are materially and conceptually “made” and examine the effects that such labeling has on how postindustrial urban sites are used and valued. Taking examples from the capital cities of England and Scotland (London and Edinburgh), I show that the meaning of “waste” at such sites is temporally and socially contingent. Establishing certainty between which landscapes are “wasted” and which are not can prove difficult, and, in some cases, archaeologists themselves may be implicated in labeling and then “cleansing” wastelands, with archaeology operating as a form of waste management. While wastelands may appear as dissonant and associated with negativity or decay at first glance, I show that these places can also facilitate surprisingly generative and creative uses and provide new forms of heritage value. PubDate: 2024-07-29
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Abstract: Abstract From 1828 until its liberation at the outset of the American Civil War in 1861, the slave-jail complex built by the domestic slave-trading firm of Franklin & Armfield at 1315 Duke Street in Alexandria, Virginia, facilitated a fundamental transformation in American slavery. It was used to industrialize the domestic slave trade; however, it also witnessed moments of agency and power, as individuals negotiated oppressive legal, social, and economic systems. These systems were not static, and when these supporting frameworks were disrupted in moments of change, existing tensions and contradictions erupted. As the site was transformed from a slave jail to a military prison and then again as the war ended, the systems that supported slavery and white supremacy were laid bare in moments of tension before retreating to take on new forms. As the City of Alexandria transforms this site into a museum, we confront these tensions in the present. PubDate: 2024-07-17
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Abstract: Abstract Archaeological practice grapples with several kinds of dissonance in and of Chicago: the current municipally mandated commissions charged with responding to and reevaluating the commemorative landscape; the amateur, academic, private, and state archaeological apparatus that oversees what, if any, archaeological research is undertaken and reported; and the desires of people in Chicago for an understanding of the city that goes beyond the veneration of great architects and architecture. Archaeological work at Chicago’s Mecca Flats (built 1892) is a case study for potential ways to subvert forms of urban dissonance. The Mecca was a modern apartment prototype, a hotel for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, a majority-white- then majority-Black-tenancy building, a social center of the 1920s Black Metropolis, and a symbol of urban blight demolished to expand the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 2018, archaeological research joined the more commonplace architectural veneration to uncover this material legacy of urban renewal. PubDate: 2024-07-15
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Abstract: Abstract For two days in August 1831, an enslaved preacher named Nathaniel Turner and a core group of followers rampaged across rural Southampton County, Virginia, killing some 55 white people. One month later, 46 free Black residents of Alexandria, Virginia, published a petition in the local newspaper, asserting their loyalty to the town. What compelled these 46 men to do this' I explore the connections among the petitioners as well as 238 other free Blacks in Alexandria in 1831, focusing on the concepts of social dissonance and stability. I propose that free Black Alexandrians mitigated the discord in their lives by forming neighborhoods, buying property, putting down roots, and establishing a favorable reputation within the white community. I conduct a documentary archaeology of primary sources to investigate the ways that free Blacks tempered the daily onslaught of racist disruption in their lives, particularly for the period ca. 1829–1833. PubDate: 2024-07-12
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Abstract: Abstract An important dimension of the newly independent Finland national narrative was constructed with the deeper historical knowledge of the civil-war monuments erected after independence in 1917. Finnish historical memory struggled to accommodate its horrific 1918 civil war in the new national heritage. The state rejected public monuments to the civil war’s vanquished “Reds”––the lost, socialist side of the war––but survivors, allies, and families of Reds fabricated a memorial landscape at the many mass graves, execution sites, and prison camps scattered throughout the country. This article examines the ways the Reds negotiated state historical narratives through the establishment of a monumental landscape that was forced to be outside urban spaces and created dissonances and counter-memories of the civil war and a measure of reconciliation between former combatants. PubDate: 2024-07-11
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Abstract: Abstract Hamtramck, a small, century-old city completely enveloped by Detroit, is promoted by its leadership as “the world in 2.1 square miles.” This slogan invokes two inextricable facets of the city’s heritage and contemporary identity: Hamtramck’s longstanding reputation as a proud, working-class city that has always been welcoming to immigrants, and its significance as the former home of automotive manufacturer Dodge Main, whose operations between 1910 and 1979 positioned the city as a global industrial powerhouse. The Old Hamtramck Center Project combines historical, archaeological, and geospatial sources of data to examine the process of urban expansion in the new city, which included the dissonant relationships among local communities and the built environment. Archaeological investigations within Old Hamtramck Center consider how the city’s residents experienced the often inconsistent circumstances of rapid urbanization and civic organization as the rural village transformed into a crowded industrial city during the early 20th century. PubDate: 2024-07-01
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Abstract: Abstract #SayHerName and #BlackLivesMatter carry on the deep tradition of organized Black resistance to white supremacy. Focusing riots and rebellions in New York City, this article considers acts of resistance by Black people centering life and community juxtaposed against acts of anti-Black violence that deny Black humanity. The objectified skeletal remains of 79 Black women who were dissected in Progressive Era New York City provide a way to reconstruct Black life when framed within discussions of intergenerational trauma and the “wake,” as proposed by Christina Sharpe (2016). Many of these women lived through and witnessed race riots in the city, including the 1863 Draft Riots and the 1900 Tenderloin Race Riot. I reflect upon how, as a Black woman and bioarchaeologist, I am living through and witnessing events similar to those that transpired over a century ago, and I consider what else these women might tell us about this current moment. PubDate: 2024-06-27
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Abstract: Abstract The city of Belfast in Northern Ireland has been made and remade through cycles of violence during its 400-year “history.” The most recent manifestation of violent conflict associated with the city was a low-level civil war euphemistically known as “the Troubles” (ca. 1968–ca. 1998). Alongside the enduring markers of bombings, civil unrest, and attempts to police and disrupt them, presences and absences can also be assigned to forced and facilitated movements of communities, the “planned violence” (O’Neill 2018) of road-building schemes, and what were designated at the time as “slum clearances.” But there have been attempts to disrupt—and reinsert—attempted erasures of conflict when associated with enduring social injustices. This article will examine a site associated with the bombing of McGurk's Bar in 1971 to reveal how the material memory of the past has been “re-presenced” to disrupt attempts to disappear sectarian violence as a form of activism in the contemporary. PubDate: 2024-06-24
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Abstract: Abstract Dissent over what merits preservation and constitutes progress undergirds Alexandria Archaeology’s establishment. This program is rooted in mid-20th-century urban renewal. In demolishing several blocks and removing people of color and poor whites from the city’s downtown, officials hoped to reinvent this area as a haven for white, middle-class residents and tourists drawn to Alexandria by its historic character. During demolition, a group of concerned citizens noted that bulldozers were removing archaeological resources as well as “blight” in the name of progress. They established an archaeology program dedicated to mitigating these effects. These early archaeological projects privileged some histories, however, focusing on 18th-century, elite, white history instead of on the diverse 19th-century community that had once existed on the blocks. These archaeological collections provide insight into the dissonance of historical interpretation. This article explores how new analyses of older collections give voice to some of these lesser-known histories PubDate: 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.1007/s41636-024-00498-4
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