Racializing the commonplace landscape

An Archaeology of Urban Renewal Along the Color Line

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3919005
AutoresPaul R Mullins (0000-0002-0998-8196, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen38
Número1
Páginas60-71
Fecha de publicación2006-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438240500509884
OpenAlexW2047684159
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas32
Referencias citadas10

In the 1960’s Indianapolis, Indiana’s near-Westside was transformed by urban renewal projects that carved space for the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus out of a predominately African-American neighborhood. Within two decades that longstanding community was totally displaced, and today the former neighborhood covering 300 acres is completely effaced and the community is largely forgotten. This paper examines how archaeology on the University campus provides a mechanism to illuminate the processes that remade the near-Westside. Archaeological research conducted along with the displaced community and its descendants provides a powerful tool to rethink the otherwise prosaic campus landscape as a space shaped by racial and class privilege

Archaeology · Class (philosophy · Political science · Privilege (computing · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies