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Seeing Community Values And Resistance In The Grave: Burial Practices At Terre Haute African Cemetery, Annabelle Julia Lewis
Seeing Community Values And Resistance In The Grave: Burial Practices At Terre Haute African Cemetery, Annabelle Julia Lewis
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This thesis examines a group of 114 burials found within the Terre Haute African Cemetery in Midlothian, Virginia, using gender and resistance as frameworks through which to understand the relationships that members of the historically Black Huguenot Spring community had with the American funeral industry as it developed parallel to the cemetery’s use history from roughly 1800 to 1934. The movement for the beautification of death and increasing emphasis on material goods for funerary commemoration beginning in the nineteenth century did not occur in a vacuum; this work explores the ways in which Huguenot Springs community members chose to participate …
"It's Not Meant For Us": Exploring The Intersection Of Gentrification, Public Education, And Black Identity In Washington, D.C., Shea Winsett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation discusses themes of racial identity, meaning of space, and class through an exploration of the intersection of gentrification and public education in Washington, D.C. Through analysis of middle-class responses to gentrification I argue, 1) that the public education system is a site of gentrification, as it has become a site of capitalistic development and Black displacement; 2) that the American concept of race, including race relations, is not an aberration of typical American society, but a defining cultural feature; and 3) the best way to understand race and class in America is to use theory constructed from the …
Nineteenth Century Enslaved African Americans' Coping Strategies For The Stresses Of Enslavement In Virginia, Allison Michelle Campo
Nineteenth Century Enslaved African Americans' Coping Strategies For The Stresses Of Enslavement In Virginia, Allison Michelle Campo
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Technique Of The Poquoson-Style Log Canoe, David Andrews Moran
The Technique Of The Poquoson-Style Log Canoe, David Andrews Moran
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Honoring The Ancestors: Historical Reclamation And Self-Determined Identities In Richmond And Rio De Janeiro, Autumn Rain Duke Barrett
Honoring The Ancestors: Historical Reclamation And Self-Determined Identities In Richmond And Rio De Janeiro, Autumn Rain Duke Barrett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation focuses on how history is made meaningful in the present. I argue that within the United States and Brazil, historic narratives and sites are employed in legitimizing and contesting past and contemporary social inequity. National, regional, and local narratives tell the stories of how communities and their members came to be who and where they are in the present. Social hierarchies and inequity are naturalized and/or questioned through historic narratives. Formative education includes telling these stories to children. Commemorative events and monuments tell and re-tell stories to community members of all ages. Enculturation of historical identities, the positioning …
Dealing In Metaphors: Exploring The Materiality Of Trade On Virginia's Seventeenth Century Eastern Siouan Frontier, Madeleine Ailsworth Gunter
Dealing In Metaphors: Exploring The Materiality Of Trade On Virginia's Seventeenth Century Eastern Siouan Frontier, Madeleine Ailsworth Gunter
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Community Building After Emancipation: An Anthropological Study Of Charles' Corner, Virginia, 1862-1922, Shannon Sheila Mahoney
Community Building After Emancipation: An Anthropological Study Of Charles' Corner, Virginia, 1862-1922, Shannon Sheila Mahoney
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The half-century marked by the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I was a critical period of cultural, social, and economic transition for African Americans in the southern United States. During the late nineteenth century, while African Americans were rebuilding communities and networks disrupted by enslavement and the ensuing Civil War, several settlements developed between Williamsburg and Yorktown on Virginia's lower peninsula. One of the settlements, Charles' Corner, is an optimal case study for understanding the gradual process of community building during a particularly challenging period of African American history dominated by systemic racism and …
Derogatory To The Rights Of Free-Born Subjects: Racialization And The Identity Of The Williamsburg Area's Free Black Population From 1723-1830, Rebecca Anne Schumann
Derogatory To The Rights Of Free-Born Subjects: Racialization And The Identity Of The Williamsburg Area's Free Black Population From 1723-1830, Rebecca Anne Schumann
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Nottoway Of Virginia: A Study Of Peoplehood And Political Economy, C.1775-1875, Buck Woodard
The Nottoway Of Virginia: A Study Of Peoplehood And Political Economy, C.1775-1875, Buck Woodard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This research examines the social construction of a Virginia Indian reservation community during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Between 1824 and 1877 the Iroquoian-speaking Nottoway divided their reservation lands into individual partible allotments and developed family farm ventures that mirrored their landholding White neighbors. In Southampton's slave-based society, labor relationships with White landowners and "Free People of Color" impacted Nottoway exogamy and shaped community notions of peoplehood. Through property ownership and a variety of labor practices, Nottoway's kin-based farms produced agricultural crops, orchard goods and hogs for export and sale in an emerging agro-industrial economy. However, shifts in Nottoway …
I'M Really Just An American: The Archaeological Importance Of The Black Towns In The American West And Late-Nineteenth Century Constructions Of Blackness, Shea Aisha Winsett
I'M Really Just An American: The Archaeological Importance Of The Black Towns In The American West And Late-Nineteenth Century Constructions Of Blackness, Shea Aisha Winsett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Dietary Bioarchaeology: Late Woodland Subsistence Within The Coastal Plain Of Virginia, Berek J. Dore
Dietary Bioarchaeology: Late Woodland Subsistence Within The Coastal Plain Of Virginia, Berek J. Dore
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Gaming Among Enslaved Africans In The Americas, And Its Uses In Navigating Social Interactions, Katrina Ann Christiano
Gaming Among Enslaved Africans In The Americas, And Its Uses In Navigating Social Interactions, Katrina Ann Christiano
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Places Of Power: The Community And Regional Development Of Native Tidewater Palisades Post A.D 1200, Christopher J. Shephard
Places Of Power: The Community And Regional Development Of Native Tidewater Palisades Post A.D 1200, Christopher J. Shephard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Pamunkey Pottery And Cultural Persistence, Ashley Atkins
Pamunkey Pottery And Cultural Persistence, Ashley Atkins
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"A Graine Of Marveilous Great Increase": A Political Landscape Approach To Powhatan Maize Production And Exchange In Seventeenth Century Virginia, Danielle Christine Risse
"A Graine Of Marveilous Great Increase": A Political Landscape Approach To Powhatan Maize Production And Exchange In Seventeenth Century Virginia, Danielle Christine Risse
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Tuscarora Trails: Indian Migrations, War, And Constructions Of Colonial Frontiers, Stephen D. Feeley
Tuscarora Trails: Indian Migrations, War, And Constructions Of Colonial Frontiers, Stephen D. Feeley
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Over a century before the Cherokees' Infamous "Trail of Tears," uprooted refugees already made up a majority among Indians in many regions of the American backcountry. Using the Tuscarora Indians as a case study, I take a new look at the role of refugee Indian groups in the construction of colonial frontiers and examine the ways that Indians thrown together from varying regional and cultural backgrounds wrestled with questions of collective identity. Although the Tuscaroras had once been eastern North Carolina's most influential Indian nation, after devastating military defeat, in the words of one contemporary, they "scattered as the wind …
Wild Animals And Domesticated Landscapes: A Case Study Of Human-Animal Relationships In The Middle And Late Woodland Coastal Plain Of Virginia, Nadejda Levine
Wild Animals And Domesticated Landscapes: A Case Study Of Human-Animal Relationships In The Middle And Late Woodland Coastal Plain Of Virginia, Nadejda Levine
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
America's Other Peculiar Institution: Exploring The York County Free Black Register As A Means Of Social Control, 1798-1831, Andrew Jefferson Butts
America's Other Peculiar Institution: Exploring The York County Free Black Register As A Means Of Social Control, 1798-1831, Andrew Jefferson Butts
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The New Orleans Free People Of Color And The Process Of Americanization, 1803-1896, Camille Kempf Gourdet
The New Orleans Free People Of Color And The Process Of Americanization, 1803-1896, Camille Kempf Gourdet
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Moravian Missions To The Delaware Indians, 1792-1812, Jessica Maul
Moravian Missions To The Delaware Indians, 1792-1812, Jessica Maul
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Chickasaw Material Culture And The Deerskin Trade: An Analysis Of Two Eighteenth Century Chickasaw Sites In Northeast Mississippi, John Robert Underwood
Chickasaw Material Culture And The Deerskin Trade: An Analysis Of Two Eighteenth Century Chickasaw Sites In Northeast Mississippi, John Robert Underwood
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Social Science, Serving Bowls And The Question Of Ethnicity: Deconstructing Material Culture Correlates Of Ethnic Identification, Kristen Barbara Heitert
Social Science, Serving Bowls And The Question Of Ethnicity: Deconstructing Material Culture Correlates Of Ethnic Identification, Kristen Barbara Heitert
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Religion And Resistance: African Baptist Churches In Virginia, Stephanie Rosel Reiss
Religion And Resistance: African Baptist Churches In Virginia, Stephanie Rosel Reiss
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Social Stratification In York County, Virginia, 1860-1919: A Study Of Whites And African-Americans On The Lands Of The Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, Kenneth Edward Stuck
Social Stratification In York County, Virginia, 1860-1919: A Study Of Whites And African-Americans On The Lands Of The Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, Kenneth Edward Stuck
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
To Make Them Like Us: European-Indian Intermarriage In Seventeenth-Century North America, Jennifer Agee Jones
To Make Them Like Us: European-Indian Intermarriage In Seventeenth-Century North America, Jennifer Agee Jones
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
African-American Family And Society On The Lands Of The Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1862-1880, Bradley Michael Mcdonald
African-American Family And Society On The Lands Of The Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1862-1880, Bradley Michael Mcdonald
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
African-American Influence On The Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe: Evidence From Nineteenth Century Probate Inventories And Population Census Records Of York County, Virginia And Worcester County, Maryland, Albert James M. Mamary
African-American Influence On The Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe: Evidence From Nineteenth Century Probate Inventories And Population Census Records Of York County, Virginia And Worcester County, Maryland, Albert James M. Mamary
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Seneca Hair Combs As Material Culture: A Study, April Jean Vasey
Seneca Hair Combs As Material Culture: A Study, April Jean Vasey
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Master-Slave Relations: A Williamsburg Perspective, Ywone Edwards-Ingram
Master-Slave Relations: A Williamsburg Perspective, Ywone Edwards-Ingram
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Tanner And Boundary Maintenance: Determining Ethnic Identity, William James Sheppard
The Tanner And Boundary Maintenance: Determining Ethnic Identity, William James Sheppard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.