Caree A Banton
Biographic Data
| ID | 110605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caree A Banton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caree A |
| FAMILY NAME | Banton |
| SIGNATURE | BANTON C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5943-7472 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Archaeology of Providence Island
The 2022 bicentennial of the arrival of Black Americans to West African shores was a moment of reflection for many Liberians. In the wake of civil war, many questioned the celebratory tone of the occasion and challenged settler heritage narratives. At the same time, Providence Island featured prominently in official programming. Since 2019, our Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology project has worked on the island to investigate the site's func…
Aspirational architecture and AK-47s
Global awareness of Liberia's recent past is largely limited to the long-term bloodshed that erupted with a 1980 coup and the civil conflict that followed soon thereafter (1989-2003). What remains understudied is how recent episodes of violence are tethered to the decades following Liberia's founding as a settler colony of the American Colonization Society in 1822. Our collaborative Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology (BAHA) project, the firs…
More Auspicious Shores
More Auspicious Shores chronicles the migration of Afro-Barbadians to Liberia. In 1865, 346 Afro-Barbadians fled a failed post-emancipation Caribbean for the independent black republic of Liberia. They saw Liberia as a means of achieving their post-emancipation goals and promoting a pan-Africanist agenda while simultaneously fulfilling their 'civilizing' and 'Christianizing' duties. Through a close examination of the Afro-Barbadians, Caree A. Ban…
New directions in the study of African American recolonization
When W.E.B Du Bois branded the Liberia colonization movement as ‘poorly conceived and not altogether genuine,’ he captured the sentiment of generations of scholars. As a broad, long-lived social ex
And the Incomplete Caribbean Emancipation Project
The year 1865 has served a temporal marker of freedom in both the USA and the Caribbean. For African Americans who sought various means to escape the travails of an American slave society, 1865 symbolized the possibilities for a future secured by legislation. By contrast, instead of optimism, 1865 in the British Caribbean signaled demise, failure, and gloomy prospects for the future of an already 30-year-old emancipation legislation passed by par…
Who Is Black in a Black Republic?
Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations
Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia
In 1787, the British Anti-Slavery Society planted a ‘province of freedom’ for poor blacks in Sierra Leone, providing a blueprint for Americans establishing Liberia as the ‘beacon of hope and possib
Aspirational architecture and AK-47s
Global awareness of Liberia's recent past is largely limited to the long-term bloodshed that erupted with a 1980 coup and the civil conflict that followed soon thereafter (1989-2003). What remains understudied is how recent episodes of violence are tethered to the decades following Liberia's founding as a settler colony of the American Colonization Society in 1822. Our collaborative Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology (BAHA) project, the firs…
Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia
In 1787, the British Anti-Slavery Society planted a ‘province of freedom’ for poor blacks in Sierra Leone, providing a blueprint for Americans establishing Liberia as the ‘beacon of hope and possib
Who Is Black in a Black Republic?
Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations
More Auspicious Shores
More Auspicious Shores chronicles the migration of Afro-Barbadians to Liberia. In 1865, 346 Afro-Barbadians fled a failed post-emancipation Caribbean for the independent black republic of Liberia. They saw Liberia as a means of achieving their post-emancipation goals and promoting a pan-Africanist agenda while simultaneously fulfilling their 'civilizing' and 'Christianizing' duties. Through a close examination of the Afro-Barbadians, Caree A. Ban…
New directions in the study of African American recolonization
When W.E.B Du Bois branded the Liberia colonization movement as ‘poorly conceived and not altogether genuine,’ he captured the sentiment of generations of scholars. As a broad, long-lived social ex
And the Incomplete Caribbean Emancipation Project
The year 1865 has served a temporal marker of freedom in both the USA and the Caribbean. For African Americans who sought various means to escape the travails of an American slave society, 1865 symbolized the possibilities for a future secured by legislation. By contrast, instead of optimism, 1865 in the British Caribbean signaled demise, failure, and gloomy prospects for the future of an already 30-year-old emancipation legislation passed by par…
Aspirational architecture and AK-47s
Global awareness of Liberia's recent past is largely limited to the long-term bloodshed that erupted with a 1980 coup and the civil conflict that followed soon thereafter (1989-2003). What remains understudied is how recent episodes of violence are tethered to the decades following Liberia's founding as a settler colony of the American Colonization Society in 1822. Our collaborative Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology (BAHA) project, the firs…
The Archaeology of Providence Island
The 2022 bicentennial of the arrival of Black Americans to West African shores was a moment of reflection for many Liberians. In the wake of civil war, many questioned the celebratory tone of the occasion and challenged settler heritage narratives. At the same time, Providence Island featured prominently in official programming. Since 2019, our Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology project has worked on the island to investigate the site's func…
History (7 works) · Ethnology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)