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Scrubbing the Whitewash from New England History:

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Scrubbing the Whitewash from New England History:

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Bulger, Teresa Dujnic

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Citizenship, Race and Gender in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Nantucket

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Wilkie, Laurie A.

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UC Berkeley

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2013

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UC Berkeley

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2013

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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.

Bulger, Teresa Dujnic

Wilkie, Laurie A.

UC Berkeley

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