UMass Amherst Department of Anthropology

W.E.B. Du Bois Center at UMass Amherst

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W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America (Book)

Contexts of Resistance in African American Wester Massachusetts: A View from the W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite in Great Barrington, MA

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A historical archaeologist who focuses on the historical intersection of race, class and gender in shaping cultural landscapes in the African diaspora. Whitney Battle-Baptiste has appeared in print, electronic and digital media to discuss a wide range of topics including the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the history of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Her theoretical interests include Black feminist theory, African American material and expressive culture, and critical heritage studies.  Her work spans a variety of historic sites in the Northern and Southern United States, including the home of Andrew Jackson in Nashville, Tennessee; Rich Neck Plantation in Williamsburg, Virginia; the Abiel Smith School in Boston, Massachusetts; and the W. E. B. Du Bois Homesite in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.  Her latest research is a community-based archaeology project at the Millars Plantation site on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas.

Battle-Baptiste is the current president of the American Anthropological Association.

Black Feminist Theory

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Black Archeology

W.E.B. Du Bois

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Black Feminist Archeology

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Why race matters in murder cases

Beneath an Old Fireplace, Evidence of the Spirituality of the Enslaved

Whitney Battle-Baptiste on television

Beyond the textbooks: A closer look at Martin Luther King Jr.

Tribute to Du Bois’ 150th birthday kicks off with new exhibit and youth involvement

Professor of Anthropology / Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center

In W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2018), editors Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert brought together the first complete publication of Du Bois’s groundbreaking charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition. A selection of Du Bois’ pioneering data visualizations are currently on display at Cooper Hewitt in the exhibition Deconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World’s Fair. 

Tune into a conversation with the editors as they discuss these data portraits through the lens of Du Bois’s life, work, and scholarship.

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: A Conversation with Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert

Whitney Battle-Baptiste talks about issues at Pelham Elementary

Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Black Feminist archaeologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, answers the question "Why Anthropology/ Why Archaeology?" Filmed at the 116th Annual Meeting of American Anthropologist

Why Anthropology? Whitney Battle-Baptiste 11 30 2017

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