The Rosewood Massacre: An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence
(Part of the Cultural Heritage Studies Series)
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Southern Anthropological Society James Mooney Award - Honorable Mention
Drawing on new methods and theories, Edward Gonz lez-Tennant uncovers important elements of the forgotten history of Rosewood. He uses a mix of techniques such as geospatial analysis, interpretation of remotely sensed data, analysis of census data and property records, oral history, and the excavation and interpretation of artifacts from the site to reconstruct the local landscape. Gonz lez-Tennant interprets these and other data through an intersectional framework, acknowledging the complex ways class, race, gender, and other identities compound discrimination. This allows him to explore the local circumstances and broader sociopolitical power structures that led to the massacre, showing how the event was a microcosm of the oppression and terror suffered by African Americans and other minorities in the United States.
Gonz lez-Tennant connects these historic forms of racial violence to present-day social and racial inequality and argues that such continuities demonstrate the need to make events like the Rosewood massacre public knowledge.
A volume in the series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel
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