The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America

By:

Charles E. Orser, Jr

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective

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With the advent of this book, the ability of archaeologists to contribute to the study of race no longer can be doubted. By focusing on ""racialization,"" the marginalizing process in which racial categories are imposed on groups of people based on some 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, 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; this book demonstrates ways that historical archaeology can contribute to understanding a fundamental element of the American immigrant experience.

Author Biography:

Charles E. Orser Jr., distinguished professor of anthropology at Illinois State University, is the author of Race and Practice in Archaeological Interpretation, and the founding editor of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology.

Release date NZ

October 30th, 2007

Author

Charles E. Orser, Jr

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Contributor

Series edited by Michael S. Nassaney

Illustrations

illustrations

Pages

208

Series

The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780813031439

Product ID

3893596

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