Greetings!

The June 2008 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html

In June's newsletter, we feature: articles and essays by Akin
Ogundiran, Anne Yentsch, Terrance Weik, Uzi Baram, Jerome S. Handler,
Nicholas Honerkamp, Rachel L. DeVan, Mary C. Beaudry, Alaba Simpson,
and Akeia A.F. Benard; a compiled list of graduate programs in
African diaspora archaeology; news reports and announcements; and
book reviews by Fred L. McGhee, Christopher Espenshade, Zacharys
Anger Gundu, and Susan Cooksey. A table of contents is set out below.

Please contact me if you have essays, analysis papers, book reviews,
project reports, announcements, or news updates that you'd like to
contribute to the African Diaspora Archaeology Network and
Newsletter. This Newsletter is published quarterly, in March, June,
September, and December. We serve an expanding readership of over
5,000 per Newsletter issue.

Cheers,
Chris

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June 2008 Newsletter

** Articles, Essays, and Reports **

African Atlantic Archaeology and Africana Studies: A Programmatic
Agenda, by Akin Ogundiran

Excavating the South's African American Food History, by Anne Yentsch

Mexico's 'Cimarron' Heritage and Archaeological Record, by Terrance
Weik

A Haven from Slavery on Florida's Gulf Coast: Looking for Evidence of
Angola on the Manatee River, by Uzi Baram

Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Smoking Pipes, Tobacco, and the
Middle Passage, by Jerome S. Handler

Pieces of Chocolate: Surveying Slave and Planter Life at Chocolate
Plantation, Sapelo Island, Georgia, by Nicholas Honerkamp and Rachel
L. DeVan

Not Presentism but Honesty: Symposium and Lecture Series at Boston
University Commemorates the 200th Anniversary of the Ending of the US-
Atlantic Slave Trade, by Mary C. Beaudry

Some Reflections on Relics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the
Historic Town of Badagry, Nigeria, by Alaba Simpson

Dissertation Abstract: The Free African American Cultural Landscape:
Newport, RI, 1774-1826, by Akeia A.F. Benard

** News and Announcements **

Graduate Programs in African Diaspora Archaeology, by Christopher
Fennell

Society for Georgia Archaeology Publishes Two-Part Volume on African-
American Archaeology, by J. W. Joseph

States Lead Slavery Apology Movement, by Christine Vestal

New Books: Africa, Brazil and the Construction of Trans Atlantic
Black Identities; Themes in West Africa's History

** Conferences and Calls for Papers **

Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries

Society for Historical Archaeology 2009 Conference

** Book Reviews **

Review of "The Slave Ship: A Human History," by Fred L. McGhee

Review of "Sampling Many Pots," by Christopher Espenshade

Review of "Archaeology and Culture History in the Central Niger
Delta," by Zacharys Anger Gundu

Review of "For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics," by Susan Cooksey