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The archaeology of race and racialization in historic America / Charles E. Orser, Jr. ; foreword by Michael S. Nassaney.
- Title
- The archaeology of race and racialization in historic America / Charles E. Orser, Jr. ; foreword by Michael S. Nassaney.
- Author
- Orser, Charles E.
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Nassaney, Michael S.
- Description
- xiii, 213 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "By focusing on "racialization"--The marginalizing process in which racial categories are imposed on groups of people based on an outward characteristic - Charles Orser shows how historical archaeology can contribute to the study of race through the conscious examination of material culture. He demonstrates this in two case studies, one from the Five Points excavation in New York City, focusing on an immigrant Irish population, and the second from a Chinese laundry in Stockton, California."
- "Orser argues that race has not always been defined by skin color; through time its meaning has changed. The process of racialization has marked most groups who came to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America demonstrates ways that historical archaeology can contribute to understanding a fundamental element of the American immigrant experience."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- American experience in archaeological perspective
- Uniform Title
- American experience in archaeological perspective
- Subject
- Geschichte (umfassend)
- Archaeology and history > United States
- Race > Social aspects > History. > United States
- Ethnicity > United States > History
- Racism > United States > History
- Social classes > United States > History
- Material culture > United States > History
- Historic sites > United States
- Excavations (Archaeology) > United States
- United States > Race relations
- United States > Antiquities
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-203) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Race, racialization, and why archaeologists should care -- Racialization and American historical archaeologists -- Race, class, and the archaeology of the modern world -- The Irish in New York City -- The Chinese in Northern California -- Modern-world archaeology and racialization.
- ISBN
- 9780813031439 (alk. paper)
- 0813031435 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007007774
- OCLC
- 85766020
- SCSB-10754367
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library