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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign <cfennell@uiuc.edu> The December 2007 Newsletter is now available online at: http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html In December's newsletter, we feature: articles and essays by Richard Benjamin, Christopher Fennell, Jenna Coplin, Christopher Matthews, Timothy James Scarlett, and Helen Blouet; news reports and announcements; a film review and book reviews by Christopher Espenshade, John McCarthy, Liza Gijanto, and Patrick Morgan. A table of contents is set out below. Please contact me if you have essays, analysis papers, book reviews, project reports, announcements, or news updates that you'd like to contribute to the African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter. This Newsletter is published quarterly, in March, June, September, and December. We serve an expanding readership of over 5,000 per Newsletter issue. December 2007 Newsletter ** Articles, Essays, and Reports ** The Development of the International Slavery Museum, by Richard Benjamin Multivalent Symbols of an Enclosing Hand, by Christopher C. Fennell The Archaeology of Captivity and Freedom at Joseph Lloyd Manor, by Jenna Coplin and Christopher Matthews Teaching the Archaeology of the African Diaspora, and its Consequences: Thoughts about Entangling Education, by Timothy James Scarlett Grave Site Identification on St. John, Virgin Islands: The Use of Grave Markers and Commemorative Space during the Danish Colonial Period, by Helen Blouet ** News and Announcements ** Nameless Are Memorialized at Old African Burial Site, by Elias E. Lopez Virtual Museum of African-American History Opens 1807 Commemorated: Website Launch Frederick Douglass Prize Awarded Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery, by Jillian Galle Archaeology Field School: Sugar and Slavery in Colonial Jamaica New Books: Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora; Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage; Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination; Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic; Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1717; The Seminole Freedmen: A History; History of The Urhobo People of Niger Delta ** Conferences and Calls for Papers ** Society for Historical Archaeology 2008 Conference Lifting the Veil: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Identity Cultural Memory of Sacred Spaces in Migrations and Diasporas Making Race, Making Health: Historical Approaches African American Life and Culture in the Georgia Lowcountry Journal of Historical Sociology: Plantations Past and Present ** Book Reviews ** Editor's Note Film Review of "Quilombo Country," by Chris Espenshade Review of "The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology," by John P. McCarthy Review of "Historical Archaeology in Africa," by Liza Gijanto Review of "No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yard Work," by Patrick H. Morgan
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