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- Title
Memory, Race, and Place.
- Authors
Heath, Barbara J.; Lee, Lori A.
- Abstract
Historical archaeologists are increasingly studying the formation, operation, and maintenance of racial groups in the past and the ways in which individual memories are transformed into shared social memories through the acts of remembering, forgetting, and imagining. Drawing on historical and archaeological data and oral history, this paper considers the intersection of race, landscape, and memory at archaeological sites throughout the American South, including Poplar Forest, a plantation located in Virginia's western piedmont. These studies illustrate how memory and race intersected throughout physical and social landscapes. The discussion is grounded in the belief that changing physical landscapes structure and reflect negotiations of race and inform historical memory.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN States; HISTORICAL archaeology; HISTORIOGRAPHY; ORAL history; COLLECTIVE memory; ETHNICITY; HISTORICAL geography; CULTURAL landscapes; PLANTATION life; SOUTHERN United States history; CIVILIZATION
- Publication
History Compass, 2010, Vol 8, Issue 12, p1352
- ISSN
1478-0542
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1478-0542.2010.00739.x