Speaking for the Enslaved [electronic resource] : Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites

ISBN:

9781598745504

Title:

Author:

Jackson, Antoinette T.

Personal Author:

Jackson, Antoinette T.

Publication Information:

Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2012.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 p.)

Series:

Heritage, Tourism & Community

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Foreword - Paul A. Shackel; Preface; 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: A World Class Ecosystem-Made in America by Africans in America; Chapter 5: "Tell Them We Were Never Sharecroppers" : The Snee Farm Plantation Community and the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site

Chapter 6: The Kingsley Plantation Community: A Multiracial and Multinational Profile of American HeritageChapter 7: Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; About the Author

Subject Term:

African Americans -- Southern States -- Social life and customs.

Community life -- Southern States -- History.

Historic sites -- Interpretive programs -- Southern States.

Material culture -- Southern States -- History.

Memory -- Social aspects -- Southern States.

Plantation life -- Southern States -- History.

Plantations -- Southern States.

Public history -- Social aspects -- Southern States.

Southern States -- Antiquities.

Southern States -- Cultural policy.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2012.

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Summary

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 sitesOCoincluding the one on which that the ancestors of First Lady Michelle Obama livedOCoeveryday 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.

Author Notes

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.