Racializing the commonplace landscape: an archaeology of urban renewal along the color line

In the 1960s 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 predominantly African-American neighborhood. Within two decades that longstanding community was total...

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Published in:World archaeology 2006-03, Vol.38 (1), p.60-71
Main Author: Mullins, Paul R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African American studies
African Americans
Archaeological sites
Archaeology
Black communities
College campuses
Colleges & universities
Communities
Consumption
Demography
Displacement
engagement
Generalities
Historical archaeology
Neighborhoods
Organisation and history of research
Prehistory and protohistory
Race
Racism
School campuses
Social conditions
U.S.A
Urban communities
Urban renewal
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Summary:In the 1960s 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 predominantly 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.
ISSN:0043-8243
1470-1375
DOI:10.1080/00438240500509884