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A Struggle for Heritage - Archaeology and Civil Rights in a Long Island Community (Hardcover, New edition)
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A Struggle for Heritage - Archaeology and Civil Rights in a Long Island Community (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Cultural Heritage Studies
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Based on ten years of collaborative, community-based research, this
book examines race and racism in a mixed-heritage Native American
and African American community on Long Island's north shore.
Through excavations of the Silas Tobias and Jacob and Hannah Hart
houses in the village of Setauket, Christopher Matthews explores
how the families who lived here struggled to survive and preserve
their culture despite consistent efforts to marginalize and
displace them over the course of more than 200 years. He discusses
these forgotten people and the artifacts of their daily lives
within the larger context of race, labor, and industrialization
from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. A Struggle
for Heritage draws on extensive archaeological, archival, and oral
historical research and sets a remarkable standard for projects
that engage a descendant community left out of the dominant
narrative. Matthews demonstrates how archaeology can be an activist
voice for a vulnerable population's civil rights as he brings
attention to the continuous, gradual, and effective economic
assault on people of color living in a traditional neighborhood
amid gentrification. Providing examples of multiple approaches to
documenting hidden histories and silenced pasts, this study is a
model for public and professional efforts to include and support
the preservation of historic communities of color. A volume in the
series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel
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