Download or read book Nantucket s People of Color written by Robert Johnson (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nantucket's People of Color is a fascinating study of Nantucket's African population from historical, cultural, and racial perspectives. This anthology, which represents more than ten years of research by James Bradford Ames Scholars from the University of Massachusetts Boston, examines the relationships between Africans, Quakers, others of European descent, and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket and the events and controversies that both united and divided the larger community along "racial" lines.
Download or read book The Other Islanders written by Frances Ruley Karttunen and published by Spinner Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contrary to what public history and popular literature might have led us to believe, Nantucket is historically an island of rich cultural diversity. Here, author Frances Ruley Karttunen introduces us to the original Nantucketers -- the Wampanoags -- as well as to African slaves, Pacific Islanders, Irish refugees, Azoreans, and Cape Verdeans who over the years have found a home on Nantucket. Here, too, is a look at the island's connection to Jamaica, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia -- all sources of people who have contributed to the island's economy and added dimensions to Nantucket's culture" -- Back cover.
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Download or read book Scrubbing the Whitewash from New England History written by Teresa Dujnic Bulger and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines how racial ideologies have historically been entangled with discourses on citizenship and gender difference in the United States. In looking at the case study of the 18th- and 19th-century African American community on Nantucket, I ask how these ideologies of difference and inequality were experienced, reinterpreted, and defied by women and men in the past. Whereas New England has maintained a liberal and moralistic regional narrative since the early-19th century, this dissertation builds on scholarship which has increasingly complicated this narrative, documenting the historically entrenched racial divides in the region. Historic African American community philosophies and social ideals are investigated through newspapers, pamphlets, and other records of the time. To address the household and individual scale, an archaeological investigation was undertaken at the homestead of a prominent 19th-century black family on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The Seneca Boston-Florence Higginbotham House was home to a prominent late-18th- and 19th-century African American-Native American family on the island. The materiality of the Boston home -- the artifacts, architecture, and landscape features -- are the basis for making interpretations of the lives of the individuals that once lived there. African diaspora theory, black feminist thought, and theories of performativity form the basis for the interpretive framework of this dissertation. The process of community formation and mobilization is considered with regard both for the uniting potential of cultural background and the uniting potential of political and social goals. The diversity of the African diaspora is seen as both an asset and a challenge to the uniting of the community on Nantucket. Collective and individual identities were experienced in a variety of ways. Race, gender, age, social status, and other vectors of social cohesion all contributed to the experience of intersectional identities. The concept of performativity, which proposes that identities are temporarily stabilized during actions, is also part of the foundation on which identity is theorized in this dissertation. Everyday performance provided opportunities for experiences of embodied subjectivities, where subject positions are defined and reiterated through words, bodily movement, and material choices. The historical analysis which contextualizes this research project focuses on the establishment and perpetuation of African American community ideals in the northeastern United States during the 19th century. Notions of citizenship and gender ideals were racialized and defined according to white standards. Women and men of African descent, as well as of other cultural backgrounds, were seen by dominant white culture as outside the bounds of citizenship by virtue of not being white and outside the bounds of womanhood/manhood by not being white women/men. Black communities, or communities of color, in the Northeast countered these hostile ideologies with a complex set of strategies for redefining, rejecting, or transforming dominant ideals of womanhood and manhood. Black gender ideologies represented the synthesis of several sets of cultural traditions, economic circumstances, and political goals. While these changed in important ways over the course of the 19th century, black gender ideals were consistently based on a normative notion of respectability while at the same time critiquing the race and gender ideologies of the society that defined respectability. In addition to this, people of color were increasingly defining a sense of collective identity based on these shared ideas of respectability and uplift and the ways that women and men achieved this in the home as well as in more public spaces. This dissertation first examines how the Boston-Micah family of the late-18th and early-19th centuries contributed to the founding of the community of color on Nantucket island. African American, Native American, Cape Verdean, European, and people from other lines of descent were a part of this community and in the early-19th century they united around the identifier of "people of color." Seneca Boston and Thankful Micah were among the first of these people to strike out and settle on the southern edge of town. Through an analysis of their material worlds-- including ceramics, their house itself, and their plot of land-- it is suggested that they were actively negotiating dominant discourses on racial exclusion, citizenship, and gender which excluded people of color from the rights and privileges of full personhood. The 19th-century occupants of the house contributed to the growth, florescence, and survival of the African American community through the boom of the whaling industry on the island, an economic depression, and the resurgence of the economy with the coming of the tourism industry in the late-19th century. Mary Boston Douglass, Eliza Berry, Lewis Berry, Phebe Groves Talbot Hogarth, Elizabeth Stevens, and Absalom Boston experienced the race and gender ideals of the black community in the northeast, and wider American society, in a variety of ways. An analysis of ceramics, personal adornment objects, and small finds is used to examine their experiences. This dissertation asserts that these individuals were aware of the ways that the embodiment of gender ideals contributed to community uplift, but nonetheless made choices about how they would interpret, disregard, or reshape these ideals to fit the realities of their everyday lives. This dissertation stands at once as a critique of a regional narrative, a micro-history of a family, and an analysis of race and gender ideologies which were forged in the past but continue to be relevant in the present day. Racial inequality in northeastern United States has a long history that has been in many ways obscured by popular imagination. Reexamining these regional histories continues to be an important project in the deconstruction of naturalized racial stereotypes and tracing the ways these stereotypes were interwoven with struggles for civil rights, gender, and racial equality.
Download or read book The Island of Nantucket written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nantucket Impressions written by Robert Gambee and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gambee's photographs speak magic.--New York Times
Download or read book Nantucket Scraps written by Jane Goodwin Austin and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nantucket Voices written by Mary Miles and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nantucket Voices" (Volume I)is a collection of 52 interview-based first-person stories of Nantucket's people, from elderly natives with rich memories of the island of yesteryear to people who have come from the mainland world to create new, sometimes unconventional lives on the Faraway Isle. The book has over 150 photographs, and the stories within reveal the unique character of this small island where people often come to escape or start new lives.
Download or read book The Nantucket Scrap Basket written by William Francis Macy and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nantucket in Color written by and published by Hastings House Book Publishers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nantucket written by Leslie Linsley and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a place of unspoiled beaches, windswept dunes, and dramatic natural beauty. A place free of traffic lights and blaring commercial come-ons. A place whose rich historical heritage is visible everywhere--from the antiques-shop windows filled with handmade baskets and scrimshawed ivories to the spare, shingle-clad houses that coexist harmoniously with the surrounding land- and seascapes. Imagine a place designed, by man and nature, to relax and restore you. Nantucket Island is that place. Thirty miles off Cape Cod, Nantucket is both geographically isolated and--as an internationally regarded vacation resort--culturally sophisticated. Nantucketers are rightly proud of a manner of living that couples the casual comforts of small-town life with an urbane sense of glamour, taste, and style. In this handsomely illustrated book, longtime Nantucket residents Leslie Linsley and Terry Pommett give you an insider's look at the on-island lifestyle: the restored historic homes of Nantucket town and 'Sconset village, the appealingly humble beachfront cottages that dot the island's shoreline, and the beautifully tended gardens--formal and informal--that grace Nantucket's private houses and public buildings. More than 200 color photos document the other attractions--panoramic views, home-grown handicrafts, seasonal celebrations --that make Nantucket such a rewarding place to spend a day, a summer, or a lifetim
Download or read book Nantucket Island written by Robert Gambee and published by Hastings House Book Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work on the landscape, architecture, and people of Nantucket is at last available in a full-color edition, with 430 full-color photographs.
Download or read book Nantucket Places and People 3 written by Frances Ruley Karttunen and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each chapter of Places and People 3 directs the reader to a location [on Nantucket] and tells about one or more people associated with it."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book A Nantucket Incident and People written by Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror (Nantucket, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nantucket Voices written by Mary Miles and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2004-04-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nantucket written by Cary Hazlegrove and published by Turner. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shares her photographs of Nantucket during the seasons of the year.
Download or read book A Line in the Sand written by Barbara Ann White and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integration of the Nantucket's schools followed eight years of contention in the 1840s. Boycotts, petitions, and violence resulted in the first law in the United States to guarantee equal education for all citizens regardless of race.
