| Antoinette T. Jackson | |
| Workplaces: | University of South Florida |
| Notable Works: | Speaking 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]
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]
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.
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]
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.