Jamie Brandon's Home on the Web

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Of course there are old employers, professional organizations and departments I've been associated with, but you can check out my vitae for those links.

The African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan represents the important role and major contribution that enslaved African men, women, and children made to the economy, development, and culture of America, both in the South and North.

African Diaspora Archaeology Network: The ADAN is a web portal and a focal point for archaeological studies of African diasporas, with news, current research, information and links to other web resources related to the archaeology and history of the dispersed descendants of African peoples. You can find links to the old African-American Archaeology Network Newsletter at this address as well.

African-American Archaeology, History and Cultures: Maintained by Christopher Fennell @ UIUC's Anthropology Department. Check out the New Philadelphia project while you're there!

African-American Archaeology Listserv/Group: Wonder where A-AArch has gone? We've reestablished the group as AAArch. This on-line group/Listserv is for the discussion of the Archaeology of the African Diaspora in the New World. Membership is open to anyone having a serious interest in researching and interpreting the material lives of African Americans. Discussion will focus on these topics and related cultural heritage concerns.

The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies: The interdisciplinary University of Texas Graduate Program in Cultural Studies, Folklore and Public Culture. The center acts as a hub for students in American studies, history, Asian studies, anthropology, English, etc. who have a "unique shared interest in how culture is constituted and expressed, that is, how we actually produce and project cultural forms through verbal, visual, musical, kinesthetic, material, and dramatic means."

archaeologic.com - your link to all things archaeological.

Archaeology & Material Culture @ IUPUI: A site maintained by Paul Mullins. His work fusing popular culture studies, African-American archaeology, urban studies and consumption is an example that should be, in my opinion, followed by many historical archaeologists interested in race, capitalism & urban landscapes.

Archeology at Colonial Willamsburg: My major advisor, Maria Franklin, is a research fellow at CW— check out the slave quarter excavations at Rich Neck Plantation and the Palace Lands.

The Black Diaspora Consortium (BDC): a collaborative effort of scholars and activists committed to actively working for social justice for (by, and with) African and African descended populations. BDC produces analytical and practical resources, regarding the effects of anti-black racisms in the Americas and abroad which condition ways in which race, gender, sexuality, class and nationality are lived. Housed at the University of Texas' Center for African & African-American Studies.

Chucalissa: An archaeology museum/park in Memphis, Tennessee.

Delta Archaeology: This is a link to the homepage of my old friend & colleague Mary Evleyn Starr & her archaeological services. Her goal is to provide information about archaeology in the Mississippi Delta for clients, fellow archaeologists, teachers and students, and the general public. Its new, but her content is growing.

Digital Type Collection at the Florida Museum of Natural History. A GREAT site! Check out the "Identify Your Sherd" page.

Eric Proebsting & the UofA Historical Archeology Research Group: Eric Proebsting has set up a section of his site on the University of Arkansas's server to keep folks posted about ongoing projects in the area.

First Encounters: The result of a NEH funded project produced by colleagues of mine at the Arkansas Archeological Survey. It's quite ingenious, really—High School students learn French and Spanish by interactively moving through a CD-ROM (or web site) explaining the contact period in the Mississippi Valley (and they get a healthy dose of symbolic ritual, landscape analysis, and Native American culture in the process).

The Five Points Site: Archaeologists and historians rediscover a famous nineteenth-century New York neighborhood.

The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia: promotes the scholarly examination of historical and contemporary expressions of racism.

Levi Jordan Plantation: An on-line attempt to create an active discussion about historical archaeology—how we know what we know, how we talk to the public, how we involve descendant communities, etc. At its core, the site is about an archaeological and historical site in Brazoria, Texas. The plantation was built in 1848 by Levi Jordan, his family, and the people who worked for them as slaves and, later, as tenant farmers and sharecroppers. This web site attempts to discuss the lives of ALL of these people, and covers a period from 1848 until about 1888-1890.

Project Past: A free web platform for a loose group of anthropologists, archaeologists and historians interested in history, prehistory and historical memory. I am the founder. . . . we're small in number, but growing. More projects & people are added on a regular basis. Feel free to join!

Shovelbums.org: A free CRM field work server/list run by my friend & colleague R. Joe Brandon (no, we are not related). The list has 7,600 + active subscriptions (as of winter 2002/2003). . . find out where the archaeology jobs are, instantly and easily.

The South Central Historical Archaeology Conference (SCHAC): This small conference is now in its sixth year. There is a lot to be said for these small regional conferences where folks working in similar settings can exchange ideas and get more "one-on-one" time than at the large nationwide meetings. This conference was the brain child of Amy Young and Leslie "Skip" Stewart-Abernathy & really they still keep it going.

Southern Spaces: A peer-reviewed internet journal and scholarly forum that provides open access to essays, gateways, events and conferences on real and imagined spaces and places of the American South.

Tennessee Archeology Net: An admirable project being undertaken by Kevin Smith over at MTSU.

Text, Practice and Performance: the peer-reviewed, student-edited journal of the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Texas.

Tributes to the late Jim Deetz: From the Plymouth Colony Archive Project.

The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate: an on-line research resource for individuals interested in the writings and the ongoing critical theory of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). This site maintains a collection of resource information on some of Benjamin's writings, as well as current essays about Benjamin, his work, and the work of some of his close contemporaries.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University: a series of pages detailing various aspects of Du Bois studies.

Whiteness studies: Whiteness Studies attempts to trace the economic and political history behind the invention of "whiteness," to attack the privileges given to so-called "whites," and to analyze the cultural practices (in art, music, literature, and popular media) that create and perpetuate notions of "whiteness."

WPA Life Histories: These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration from 1936-1940.

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