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DESCRIPTION:Laurie A. Wilkie will deliver The Iris Foundation Awards Lectur
 e on Tuesday\,\nApril 16\, at 6 pm. Her talk is entitled “Decorating\nSold
 iers: Black Manhood\, Citizenship\, and Things on the Nineteenth-Century\n
 Texas Frontier.'\n\nIn\n1869\, segregated Black cavalry and infantry regim
 ents were removed from\nenforcing Reconstruction policies in the recently 
 defeated South and were\npushed west of the Mississippi to serve on the fr
 ontier. Military service\, one\nof the few occupations where Black men wer
 e assured an equal wage to their\nwhite peers\, drew Civil War vets\, form
 erly free men from the North\, and\nthousands of formerly enslaved men. Th
 ese men confronted not only the desert\nfrontier\, but also the frontier o
 f newly found freedoms and promised\ncitizenship. Historical archaeologica
 l research at Fort Davis\, Texas\, provides\na unique window into their st
 ories\, drawing not only on understudied documents\nleft by Black soldiers
 \, but also on the circumstances of their day-to-day\nexistence under the 
 command of sometimes less-than-supportive white officers\,\nand the things
  that they chose to surround themselves with as they abandoned\ntheir past
  for a new future. Materials from Fort Davis focus on the period from\n186
 9–1875\, before it was clear that Reconstruction would fail and new forms 
 of\nenslavement under the guise of Jim Crow became entrenched: it is a per
 iod when\nhope and ambition dared Black men to imagine a different future.
 Laurie A. Wilkie\, professor of archaeology at the University of Californi
 a\, Berkeley\, explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century expressions 
 of social difference\, gender\, race\, ethnicity\, religion\, sex\, socioe
 conomics\, and politics can be understood through the materiality of every
 day life. Her books include The Archaeology of Mothering: An African-Ameri
 can Midwife’s Tale (2003)\, The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi: A Historical Archae
 ology of Masculinity in a University Fraternity (2010)\, and Strung Out on
  Archaeology (2014). Her current research focuses on the ways black soldie
 rs navigated the racialized landscapes of the western frontier and militar
 y life and the ways they deployed material items to express their status a
 s United States citizens.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Decorating Soldiers: Black Manhood\, Citizens
 hip\, and Things on the Nineteenth-Century Texas Frontier
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