SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 55) anthropology • african american studies Everett: (Fonts: Interstate, Insignia) (Colors: 388, 3165) mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Editors, Thomas E. Emerson, Dale L. McElrath, Andrew C. Fortier ARCHAIC SOCIETIES Diversity and Complexity across the Midcontinent Thomas E. Emerson, Dale L. McElrath, and Andrew C. Fortier, editors Essential overview of American Indian societies during the Archaic period across central North America. DIGITAL DIASpORA A Race for Cyberspace Anna Everett Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace. Deftly interweaving history, culture, and critical theory, Anna Everett traces the rise A Race for Cyberspace of black participation in cyberspace, particularly during anna EvErEtt the early years of the Internet. She challenges the problematic historical view of black people as quintessential information-age outsiders or poster children for the digital divide by uncovering their early technolust and repositioning them as eager technology adopters and consumers, and thus as coconstituent elements in the information technology revolution. She offers several case studies that include lessons learned from early adoption of the Internet by the Association of Nigerians Living Abroad and their Niajanet virtual community, the grassroots organizing efforts that led to the phenomenally successful Million Woman March, the migration of several historic black presses online, and an interventionist critique of race in contemporary video games. Ultimately, Digital Diaspora shows how African Americans and African diasporic peoples developed the necessary technomastery to ride in the front of the bus on the information superhighway. “This is a well-balanced and fascinating study…” — David Desser, coauthor of American Jewish Filmmakers, Second Edition Anna Everett is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her books include Learning Race and Ethnicity:Youth and Digital Media; New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality; and Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909–1949. A volume in the SUNY series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video Wheeler Winston Dixon, editor FEBRuARy • 272 pp • 18 illustrations $24.95 pb 978-0-7914-7674-1 $89.50 hc 978-0-7914-7673-4 Archaic Societies Diversity and Complexity across the Midcontinent nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Digital Diaspora Sweeping and detailed, this long-awaited volume is an indispensable guide to the Archaic period across the midcontinent. Archaeologists throughout the region share the latest excavation results and analytical perspectives to reveal and reinterpret the worlds of those Native peoples who lived there for some 9,000 years (up to about 3,000 years ago). Of particular concern is the establishment of relative and absolute chronologies for the Archaic period, the relationships between the artifacts left behind and the peoples who made and used them, and the changing interactions between cultures, climate, and landscape. Archaeologists offer useful, up-to-date overviews of Archaic societies, assessment of stratigraphic sequences, and detailed discussions of finds and interpretations from the Mississippi and Ohio river regions and the Great Lakes. Comprehensive and accessible, this landmark book is a must for anyone wanting to understand a crucial but little-understood period in North America’s prehistory. Thomas E. Emerson is Director of the Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program (ITARP), a joint program of the University of Illinois and the Illinois Department of Transportation. At ITARP, Dale L. McElrath is Senior Cultural Resource Archaeologist and Statewide Survey Coordinator, and Andrew C. Fortier is Special Projects Coordinator. Archaic Societies is a companion volume to their Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation across the Midcontinent. JANuARy • 891 pp Trim size: 8 ½ x 11 48 tables, 387 figures $74.00 jacketed hc 978-1-4384-2701-0 e e www.sunypress.edu 55 http://www.sunypress.edu http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61855 http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61731
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