To the City Up North

African American Migration from Antioch Colony to Austin, Texas, 1900-1940

Bibliographic Data

ID2292984
AuthorsJannie Nicole Scott (Film Independent, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume27
Issue2
Pages105-113
Publication date2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransforming Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1051-0559 • E-ISSN: 1548-7466
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/traa.12154
OpenAlexW2974599694
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

Using oral histories as its main mode of archaeological inquiry, this article presents a case study of the migration patterns of former residents from Antioch Colony, Texas, from 1900 to 1940. This approach offers a nuanced analysis of African American migration in the recent past, showing how people move through space in archaeological studies of landscapes and how movement was incorporated in Black spatial productions. A sizeable number of the migrants studied relocated seventeen miles north to Austin, Texas, suggesting that for many former residents of Antioch Colony, place-attachment and place-familiarity largely shaped places of possibility. By recovering patterns of African American movement within the historical record this article finds that the freedom to move continued to be ingrained in the spatial practices of Black people during the postbellum time period

African american · American west · Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Geography · Period (music · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History

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