Focusing on the agency of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the South, this work argues for the systematic unveiling and recovery of subjugated knowledge, histories, and cultural practices of those traditionally silenced and overlooked by national heritage projects and national public memories. Jackson uses both ethnographic and ethnohistorical data to show the various ways African Americans actively created and maintained their own heritage and cultural formations. Viewed through the lens of four distinctive plantation sites-including the one on which that the ancestors of First Lady Michelle Obama lived-everyday acts of living, learning, and surviving profoundly challenge the way American heritage has been constructed and represented. A fascinating, critical view of the ways culture, history, social policy, and identity influence heritage sites and the business of heritage research management in public spaces.
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"Antoinette Jackson's book is about extending and complicating the history of African Americans, and providing a new and more inclusive perspective for our national public memory. Speaking for the Enslaved lays a foundation to challenge the dominant narrative and it shows how the descendant community can add a more inclusive and textured story about the past."-From the Foreword by Paul Shackel, University of Maryland "With a keen eye for detail, sharp analytical insight, and methodological innovation, Jackson's book ends the practice of privileging the powerful at plantation museum heritage sites and gives voice to those previously silenced."--Stephen Small, University of California, Berkeley
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Höhe: 229 mm
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978-1-59874-548-1 (9781598745481)
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Antoinette T. Jackson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Florida, a MBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a BA in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University. Jackson also directs the Heritage Research and Resource Management Lab at USF, which she launched in 2006 as an avenue for community engagement and student participation in applied projects and initiatives with relevance outside the academic arena. Jackson is interested in issues of identity and representation at public and/or national heritage sites. Her research focuses on heritage, heritage tourism, and the business of heritage research and resource management in the U.S and the Caribbean.
Chapter 1 History, Heritage, Memory, Place; Chapter 2 Issues in Cultural Heritage Tourism, Management, and Preservation; Chapter 3 Roots, Routes, and Representation-Friendfield Plantation and Michelle Obama's Very American Story; Chapter 4 Jehossee Island Rice Plantation; Chapter 5 "Tell Them We Were Never Sharecroppers"; Chapter 6 The Kingsley Plantation Community; Chapter 7 Conclusion;
