Speaking for the Enslaved
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Abandoned Rice Fields
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African American heritage
African diaspora heritage preservation
American Beach
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Antebellum Plantation
Author_Antoinette T Jackson
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Christ Church Parish
Commercial Rice Production
Cultural Heritage Tourism
cultural memory studies
descendant community narratives
Enslaved African People
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ethnographic research methods
Gullah Geechee
Heritage Resource Management
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Jacksonville Florida
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Kingsley Plantation
Lady Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
Mount Pleasant
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National Heritage
National Heritage Areas
National Teacher Training Program
NORTH CAROLINA
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Pa Ce
park
people
plantation
Plantation Spaces
plantations
public history interpretation
Rice Plantation
service
Slave Cabins
Southern US history
spaces
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Product details
- ISBN 9781598745481
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2012
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
