Materialities of faith and gentility drew enslaved Africans and African Americans into the production of white male privilege at one of its most iconic incubators, colonial Harvard College. During the long 18th century, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, institution was an intercultural, interracial, intergenerational space of becoming. Archaeological finds and documentary archives clarify how gentility was moralized in this religiously orthodox community, emerging as a tool of racialization and masculine gendering, as well as of status. This article focuses on experiences of the hybrid institutional/domestic spaces of Wadsworth House (the dwelling of university presidents and their households) and student chambers. In these intimate contexts, intersectionality and the concept of “homeplace” strengthen perceptions of African subjectivities within an overwhelmingly English archive. This study is salient to America’s long history of respectability politics and the gendering and racializing of privilege. It produces a counter-narrative/archaeology by studying materialities of early modern white male privilege through black feminist theories.

信仰和文雅的物质吸引了被奴役的非洲人和非裔美国人，在其最具标志性的孵化器之一——殖民时期的哈佛学院，制造白人男性特权。在漫长的 18 世纪，马萨诸塞州剑桥市的机构是一个跨文化、跨种族、跨代的成长空间。考古发现和文献档案阐明了在这个宗教正统的社区中，绅士如何被道德化，成为种族化和男性化性别以及地位的工具。本文重点介绍 Wadsworth House（大学校长及其家人的住所）和学生会所的混合机构/家庭空间的体验。在这些亲密的环境中，交叉性和“家乡”的概念加强了对绝大多数英语档案中非洲主体性的看法。这项研究对美国长期以来的体面政治以及特权的性别化和种族化具有重要意义。它通过黑人女权主义理论研究早期现代白人男性特权的物质性，产生了一种反叙事/考古学。