Segregation Made Them Neighbors An Archaeology of Racialization in Boise, Idaho

White Iii, William A.

ISBN 10: 1496217136 / ISBN 13: 9781496217134

Edité par University of Nebraska Press, 2023

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Text clean and tight; no dust jacket; Historical Archaeology Of The American West; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 234 pages.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Segregation Made Them Neighbors An Archaeology of Racialization in Boise, Idaho
• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1496217136
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781496217134
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: No Dust Jacket As Issued

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Synopsis

Segregation Made Them Neighbors investigates the relationship between whiteness and nonwhiteness through the lenses of landscapes and material culture. William A. White III uses data collected from a public archaeology and digital humanities project conducted in the River Street neighborhood in Boise, Idaho, to investigate the mechanisms used to divide local populations into racial categories. The River Street Neighborhood was a multiracial, multiethnic enclave in Boise that was inhabited by African American, European American, and Basque residents. Building on theoretical concepts from whiteness studies and critical race theory, this volume also explores the ways Boise's residents crafted segregated landscapes between the 1890s and 1960s to establish white and nonwhite geographies.

White describes how housing, urban infrastructure, ethnicity, race, and employment served to delineate the River Street neighborhood into a nonwhite space, an activity that resulted in larger repercussions for other Boiseans. Using material culture excavated from the neighborhood, White describes how residents used mass-produced products to assert their humanity and subvert racial memes.

By describing the effects of racial discrimination, real-estate redlining, and urban renewal on the preservation of historic properties in the River Street neighborhood, Segregation Made Them Neighbors illustrates the symbiotic mechanisms that also prevent equity and representation through historic preservation in other cities in the American West.

À propos de l?auteur

William A. White III is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley.