Papers by Antoinette Jackson
Transforming Anthropology, Apr 1, 2010
history of racial segregation has played a critical role in shaping both what is publicly acknowl... more history of racial segregation has played a critical role in shaping both what is publicly acknowledged, remembered, and preserved with respect to heritage and what is forgotten, whispered about, or relegated to the status of other in many communities. In this paper, I discuss how the community of Sulphur Springs in Tampa, FL, in partnership with students and faculty from the University of South Florida, has begun to address issues of identity and representation in the marketing of heritage as a key cultural resource. Issues confronted by this community underscore the role that heritage research, preservation, and management plays in defining the present and creating the future. Lessons learned from a previously conducted study of the Kingsley Plantation community in Jacksonville, FL, inform this analysis.
Transforming Anthropology, Mar 13, 2012
University of Illinois Press eBooks, Oct 15, 2018
This chapter presents an overview of Vera Green’s intellectual contributions to anthropology. It ... more This chapter presents an overview of Vera Green’s intellectual contributions to anthropology. It explores the influences in Green’s life that shaped her approach to applied anthropology, particularly focusing on her Quaker roots. Green’s research is centered on the study of black families and social and cultural influences impacting their construction. Green earned degrees from Roosevelt College, Columbia University, and the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her dissertation examines the interethnic relations on the island of Aruba, Netherlands Antilles. She died after a long battle with cancer on January 17, 1982, at the age of fifty-three.
Anthropology and humanism, Jun 1, 2012
History of Anthropology Review, 2021
International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2018
There is a growing awareness of the need for a more critical analysis of the centrality of race i... more There is a growing awareness of the need for a more critical analysis of the centrality of race in discussions of stewardship of heritage resources. In this article heritage is examined through the lens of leisure, travel, and tourism with respect to race with a specific emphasis on U.S. National Park sites in the Southeast region. In the U.S. restrictions to freedom of movement and access to public sites of leisure were real for those identified as non-white prior to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In a much talked about speech delivered in 1948 by then U.S. presidential candidate Strom Thurmond, he declared theaters, swimming pools, homes, and churches off limits to integration between Blacks and Whites in the U.S. South. Engaging both the exclusion theory and utilizing the notion of artifacts of segregation as a tool of analysis, I place the Negro Travelers Green Book travel guide series and Strom Thurmond's 1948 speech in direct relief. This article challenges limited and limiting representations of African American experiences of travel and leisure at public sites of cultural and natural history and heritage.
Practicing Anthropology, 2009
Anthropology and Humanism, 2016
This article revisits the 1914 fire at the Florida Industrial School for Boys in Marianna, Florid... more This article revisits the 1914 fire at the Florida Industrial School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. It resulted in the deaths of ten people and led to increased levels of public focus on the school's mission, purpose, and its day-today operational practices. Those who burned in the fire were buried on campus in the area known as "Boot Hill Cemetery." Very little documentation about the history of the cemetery, or who is buried there, exists; and the exact locations of individual burials were never documented. In 2013, a University of South Florida (USF) research team began excavation of the burials located in the area of Boot Hill. Their efforts have been justified by requests from family members to learn about missing loved ones. Exhuming bodies of those who perished in the fire, as well as those who died at other times, demands that we think critically about what is recovered, what is invoked, and what is next and for whom. I introduce Freud's concept of "the uncanny" as a frame of reference for talking about things that surface when one recovers human remains or in some way revisits the site of a past, perhaps longhidden, traumatic event.
Foreword by Paul A. ShackelPreface1. History, Heritage, Memory, Place2. Issues in Cultural/Herita... more Foreword by Paul A. ShackelPreface1. History, Heritage, Memory, Place2. Issues in Cultural/Heritage Tourism, Management, and Preservation3. Roots, Routes and Representation: Friendfield Plantation and Michelle Obama's Very American Story4.Jehossee Island Rice Plantation--a World Class Ecosystem: Made inAmerica by Africans in America5. "Tell Them We Were Never Sharecroppers": The Snee Farm Plantation Community and the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site6. The Kingsley Plantation Community: A Multiracial and Multi-national View of Heritage in America7. ConclusionReferencesAppendixIndexAbout the Author
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2018
This chapter presents an overview of Vera Green’s intellectual contributions to anthropology. It ... more This chapter presents an overview of Vera Green’s intellectual contributions to anthropology. It explores the influences in Green’s life that shaped her approach to applied anthropology, particularly focusing on her Quaker roots. Green’s research is centered on the study of black families and social and cultural influences impacting their construction. Green earned degrees from Roosevelt College, Columbia University, and the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her dissertation examines the interethnic relations on the island of Aruba, Netherlands Antilles. She died after a long battle with cancer on January 17, 1982, at the age of fifty-three.
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