Seeing the Materiality of Race, Class, and Gender in Orange County, Virginia

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dc.contributor.advisorLeone, Mark P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWoehlke, Stefanen_US
dc.contributor.departmentAnthropologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-14T05:31:51Z
dc.date.available2021-07-14T05:31:51Z
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation explores some of the ways the African American community in Western Orange County, Virginia adapted to life after emancipation. The interpretation relies upon intersectional materialism, which is rooted in the intellectual legacy of Black Left Feminists. Intersectional materialism rejects the dualities and dichotomies common in dialectical thinking and embraces a polylectical framework that has emerged following the influences of postmodern theorists in the mid to late 20th-century. Polylectical analysis requires the inclusion of a wide array of voices from people positioned across a complex matrix of domination to better understand the structure of that matrix and the possible futures that could be produced from it. This has enabled an understanding of African American material culture that links directly to the ideas of generations of Black intellectuals. This has resulted in an emphasis on the material culture of domestic architecture and literacy. It becomes possible to more accurately interpret material culture that may not have been directly addressed by people in the past after a more complete interpretation of the structure of social forces is accomplished. This includes the analysis and interpretation of the dynamic relationship between African American domestic sites and the visualscape.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/0vdy-lgxj
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/27429
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchaeologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAfrican American studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAfrican American Historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArchaeologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEmancipationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIntersectional Materialismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIntersectionalityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledVisibility Analysisen_US
dc.titleSeeing the Materiality of Race, Class, and Gender in Orange County, Virginiaen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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