Contact: Email your hood abstracts to albert.gonzalez@csueastbay.edu by August 25, 2023.

Call for Abstracts

The literature on equity in archaeology and related administrative and corporate DEI initiatives are seeing a steep rise in efforts to understand intersectionality among professional archaeologists and to use that knowledge to build a more inclusive discipline. While those efforts typically serve to benefit archaeology, exploration of the intersection between BIPOC identities and socioeconomic class among archaeologists is curiously absent. Our proposed SAA 2024 symposium asks a few questions in that vein, including:

 ·         Why are so few archaeologists interested in exploring the intersection between ethnicity and class among practitioners in our discipline?

·         How do the personal and professional experiences of ethnically and socioeconomically marginalized archaeologists compare to those of their peers in academic archaeology and CRM?

·         In what ways does the intersection between BIPOC identity and familial poverty shape the career pathways, peer-relationships, practices, and pedagogies of culturally and socioeconomically marginalized archaeologists?

 These are questions best answered by “hood archaeologists,” practitioners whose BIPOC identities originate in the projects, Section 8 clusters, the rez, the barrio, the trailer park, or the encampment and who grew up in low-income households where the school-to-prison pipeline loomed large. We appreciate that potential presenters may take issue with our use of the term “hood,” and welcome proposals that problematize our approach. We especially encourage Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other underrepresented archaeologists to submit abstracts, though all are welcome to propose presentations. We seek to produce a session balanced in faculty, graduate student, and CRM contributions and representing varying perspectives and lived experiences.