Antoinette T. Jackson
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of South Florida
Notable worksSpeaking for the Enslaved—Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites

Antoinette T. Jackson is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa.[1] Her research focusses on sociocultural and historical anthropology, the social construction of race, class, gender, ethnicity; heritage resource management, and American, African American and African Diaspora culture.[2]

Education

Jackson studied for a BA in Computer and Information Science at Ohio State University, an MBA at Xavier University. She received a PhD in anthropology from the University of Florida,[3] with her dissertation entitled "African Communities in Southeast Coastal Plantation Spaces in America".[4]

Career

Jackson published a monograph in 2012 entitled "Speaking for the Enslaved—Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites", which was described as a "critical intervention in the fields of cultural heritage management, cultural heritage tourism, and cultural preservation".[5]

Jackson was the National Park Service Regional Ethnographer for the SE Region from 2012 to 2016.[6] She is currently associate professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida.[3]

Jackson's most recent book publication, in March 2020, is entitled "Heritage, tourism and race : the other side of leisure" [7]

She is the Director of the USF Heritage Research Lab[8] and the editor of the journal Present Pasts.[9]

Selected publications

2008. Imagining Jehossee Island Rice Plantation Today. International Journal of Heritage Studies 14:2, 131–155, DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/13527250701855155

2010. Changing ideas about heritage and heritage resource management in historically segregated communities. Transforming Archaeology 18(1): 80–92.

2011. Shattering Slave Life Portrayals: Uncovering Subjugated Knowledge in U.S. Plantation Sites in South Carolina and Florida. American Anthropologist 113: 448–462. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01353.x

2011. Diversifying the dialogue post-Katrina—Race, place, and displacement in New Orleans, U.S.A.. Transforming Anthropology 19: 3–16. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-7466.2011.01109.x

2012. Speaking for the Enslaved—Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites. Routledge.

2016. Exhuming the Dead and Talking to the Living: The 1914 Fire at the Florida Industrial School for Boys—Invoking the Uncanny as a Site of Analysis. Anthropology and Humanism 41: 158–177. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12141

2019. Remembering Jim Crow, again – critical representations of African American experiences of travel and leisure at U.S. National Park Sites, International Journal of Heritage Studies 25:7: 671–688. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2018.1544920

2020. Heritage, tourism and race : the other side of leisure. Routledge. New York, NY. doi:10.4324/9781003029014

References

  1. ↑ Jackson, Antoinette T. (2019-07-03). "Remembering Jim Crow, again – critical representations of African American experiences of travel and leisure at U.S. National Park Sites". International Journal of Heritage Studies. 25 (7): 671–688. doi:10.1080/13527258.2018.1544920. ISSN 1352-7258. S2CID 149943618.
  2. ↑ "Antoinette Jackson". The Conversation. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  3. 1 2 "USF | Anthropology | People | Jackson". www.usf.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  4. ↑ Jackson, Antoinette T (2004). African communities in southeast coastal plantation spaces in America (Thesis). OCLC 156929896.
  5. ↑ Battle-Baptise, Whitney (2014). "Speaking for the Enslaved: Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites by Antoinette Jackson. Heritage, Tourism, and Community series. Walnut Creek: Left Coast, 2012. 178 pp". American Anthropologist. 116 (2): 456–457. doi:10.1111/aman.12090_20.
  6. ↑ "Meet the Director – USF Heritage Research Lab". heritagelab.org. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  7. ↑ Jackson, Antoinette T (2020). Heritage, tourism and race: the other side of leisure. ISBN 978-1-62958-558-1. OCLC 1128889374.
  8. ↑ "USF Heritage Research Lab – Preserving and Promoting Heritage". heritagelab.org. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  9. ↑ "Present Pasts". www.presentpasts.info. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
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