African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter | Vol 11 | Iss 3

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September 2008

Articles, Essays, and Reports

Archaeological Investigation of Historic Kormantse, Ghana: Cultural Identities
E. Kofi Agorsah and Thomas Butler

Constructing Class and Community: Shifting Meanings in the Built Environment at Polly Hill Plantation, Bahamas
Jane Eva Baxter and John D. Burton

Kongo Iron: Symbolic Power, Superior Technology and Slave Wisdom
John Ringquist

Pragmatic Decisions in Equal Rights: History of an African-American Community in Jo Daviess County, Illinois
Marty Wild

Archaeology in the Nigerian University: International Lessons and Emerging Curriculum Issues
Zacharys Anger Gundu

News and Announcements

Neglected: Some Say the U.S. is Ignoring the Commemoration of the Slave Trade's End
Vanessa E. Jones

Announcements

Recent Dissertations

Finalists for the 2008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize

eBlack Studies Workshop Proceedings Available

Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art August-November, 2008, Charleston, South Carolina

Monticello Plantation Databases Updated

New Books

Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia
Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya and Jean-Pierre Angenot

Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art
Edna G. Bay

Black Inventors, Crafting Over Two Hundred Years of Success
Keith C. Holmes

Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery
David Richardson, Anthony H. Tibbles, and Suzanne Schwarz

Reparations to Africa
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Conferences

Slavery and the Slave Trades in the Indian Ocean and Arab Worlds

Slave Routes: Resistance, Abolition and Creative Progress

Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora

The Archaeology of the Recent African American Past

The 19th Century and the New Frontiers of Slavery and Freedom

Brokers of Change: Atlantic Commerce and Cultures

Book Reviews

Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia
Patricia M. Samford and James G. Gibb

The Potters of Buur Heybe, Somalia
Tara Belkin and Steven Brandt

Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
Linda M. Heywood, John K. Thornton, and John Roby

The Atlantic World: A History, 1400-1888
Douglas R. Egerton, Alison Games, Jane G. Landers, and Kris Lane