num_pages: 368
description: The moral mission archaeology set in motion by black activists in the 1960s and 1970s sought to tell the story of Americans particularly African Americans forgotten by the written record. Today the archaeological study of African-American life is no longer simply an effort to capture unrecorded aspects of black history or to exhume the heritage of a neglected community. Archaeologists now recognize that one cannot fully comprehend the European colonial experience in the Americas without understanding its African counterpart. This collection of essays reflects and extends the broad spectrum of scholarship arising from this expanded definition of African-American archaeology treating such issues as the analysis and representation of cultural identity race gender and class; cultural interaction and change; relations of power and domination; and the sociopolitics of archaeological practice. I Too Am America expands African-American archaeology into an inclusive historical vision and identifies promising areas for future study.
language: English
title: "I, Too, Am America": Archaeological Studies of African-American Life
publisher: University of Virginia Press