Power and Community: The Archaeology of Slavery at the Hermitage Plantation

1998 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian W. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Plantation Slavery ◽  
The Social ◽  
Enslaved African Americans ◽  
Different Parts

The social and material lives of African Americans on antebellum plantations in the southern United States were heavily influenced by power relations inherent to the institution of slavery. Although planters exerted immense control over slaves, plantation slavery involved constant negotiation between master and slave. This give-and-take was part of the lived experience of enslaved African Americans, and one way to approach the study of this experience is by adopting a dialectical view of power. I illustrate how such a theoretical approach can be employed by examining the archaeology of slavery at the Hermitage plantation, located near Nashville, Tennessee. By examining material culture from former slave cabins located on different parts of the plantation, I explore how various categories of material culture reflected and participated in planters’ efforts to control slaves, as well as how those efforts were contested.

The Social Impact of Sport

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-121
Author(s):  
Joseph Cornelius Spears, Jr. ◽  
Sean T. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
International Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Social

The COVID-19 pandemic assumed an international health threat, and in turn, spotlighted the distinct disparities in civil rights, opportunity, and inclusion witnessed by lived experiences of African Americans. Although these harsh disparities have existed through the United States of America's history, the age of technology and mass media in the 21st century allows for a deeper and broader look into the violation of African Americans civil liberties in virtual real time. Also, historically, the sports world has been instrumental in fighting for the civil rights of African Americans; athletes such as Jesse Owens and Muhammed Ali led by example. This chapter will showcase how the sports world continues to support social justice overall and specifically during this international pandemic. The authors will examine contemporary events like the transition in support for Colin Kaepernick's protest against police brutality and the NBA play-off (Bubble) protest in 2020.

HIV and African Americans in the Southern United States: Sexual Networks and Social Context

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. S39-S45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adaora A. Adimora ◽  
Victor J. Schoenbach ◽  
Irene A. Doherty
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Context ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Sexual Networks

scholarly journals Perspectives on Prescribed Fire in the South: Does Ethnicity Matter?

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siew Hoon Lim ◽  
J.M. Bowker ◽  
Cassandra Y. Johnson ◽  
H. Ken Cordell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Prescribed Fire ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
The South ◽  
Racial Variation ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Regression Methods

Abstract Using a household survey and regression methods, we assessed preferences for prescribed fire in the southern United States. We found that the majority of the respondents favored the use of prescribed fire. However, we observed pronounced racial variation in opinions on prescribed fire and its side effects. African Americans and Hispanics were less supportive and were more concerned about the side effects of prescribed fire than whites. We also observed that females tended to be more concerned about the side effects of prescribed fire than males. In addition, education had no effect on preference for prescribed fire in general, but education was found to be negatively associated with concern levels in all three models pertaining to concerns over the side effects of prescribed fire. Concern over the side effects diminished as education increased.

scholarly journals Promotion Strategies Are Useful in Adult Learners Examining Social Inequality and Racial Discrimination in Black Americans

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Saliza Ramli ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
American History ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Promotion Strategies

As we enter the post-covid19 pandemic and all the social uprisings and awareness of 2020 and 2022, perhaps there has never been a time in American history where students and educators at all levels need to consider and adapt more effective and innovative approaches to addressing the ‘elephant in the American – room’ and that being the issue of racism. This paper presents meaningful teaching strategies for adult learners in examining the dark impacts of racism towards African Americans in the United States.

Individual Influence

PMLA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (5) ◽  
pp. 1244-1250
Author(s):  
George Moses Horton ◽  
Jonathan Senchyne
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Americans ◽  
North America ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Relative Efficacy ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Enslaved African Americans ◽  
First Time

George Moses Horton (1797?-1883?) is one of three African Americans known to have published poetry while enslaved in colonial north America or the United States. The recently discovered holograph manuscript of “Individual Influence” is the only available evidence that Horton also wrote short essays. Written in 1855 or 1856 and published here for the first time, “Individual Influence” provides a new perspective on Horton's writing process, his strategic affiliations in Chapel Hill, and his changing ideas about the relative efficacy of political and divine influence. More generally, the essay expands the available archive of writing by enslaved African Americans.

scholarly journals Katrina, Cronulla Beach and France on Fire: An Anti-Colonial Critique of Empire in 2006

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
George Dei ◽  
Arlo Kempf
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Practical Implications

With a focus on both the theoretical and practical implications of anti-colonial theory, this article discusses a number of conflicts that have brought the oppression of marginalized bodies to the forefront of mainstream media attention. The authors formulate an anti-colonial response to the human-made disasters in the Southern United States, France and Australia. While race is finally being taken up in the mainstream media with regard to these events, such coverage has largely involved strategic denials, powerful silences and re-invocations of dominant colonial and racial paradigms. The anti-colonial discursive framework looks to the voices of the oppressed and to the various forms of, and potentialities for, agency and resistance to guide its response to the social and discursive disasters discussed herein. Given the prominence of ‘post’ discourses in the academy, a resuscitation of the anti-colonial discourse is necessary in order to provoke action-oriented resistance-based responses to modern colonial practices.

Urban Governance and Tolerance: The Regulation of Suspect Spaces and the Burden of Surveillance in Post–World War I Asheville, North Carolina

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 683-702
Author(s):  
Seth Epstein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
World War I ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
World War

This article reconsiders the relevance of tolerance to urban history in the Southern United States. It examines the surveillance of commercial and residential spaces considered morally suspect by white authorities in post–World War I Asheville, North Carolina. Policing practices involved objects of suspicion in the management of order within pawnshops, dance halls, and African American neighborhoods. The regulation of such suspect spaces distributed the responsibility for surveillance to many actors. Pawnbrokers, dance hall operators, and prominent African Americans all were enlisted and enlisted themselves in policing networks. Participants’ involvement in such efforts at times facilitated their claims to self-regulation. These networks, however, did not remove white authorities’ suspicions from either the spaces or the individuals who surveilled them. Instead, the arrangements scrutinized here supported those suspicions. Examining the contradictions of these arrangements demonstrates how tolerance informed urban governance within the context of white supremacy.

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