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]

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

Education

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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

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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

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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

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  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. ^ a b "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.