Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The literature on equity in archaeology and related human resource 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. We ask 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, CRM, and museum contexts? In what ways does the intersection between BIPOC identity and familial poverty shape one’s career pathways, peer relationships, practices, and pedagogies? We believe those 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 bring together a professionally diverse group of those archaeologists to do so, including faculty, graduate students, CRM professionals, and museum personnel.
Other Keywords
Identity/Ethnicity •
Colonialism •
Historic •
Indigenous •
class •
African American Archaeology •
Autoethnography •
Ethnohistory/History •
Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology •
Gender and Childhood
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North America (Continent) •
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United Mexican States (Country) •
Department of Martinique (Country) •
Republic of El Salvador (Country) •
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The Abandoned Intersection: Race and Class and the Diversification of Archaeology’s Ranks (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists are quick to connect race and class in conversations about the dead. However, in our discussions of the living—especially on BIPOC archaeologists and their work—class takes a backseat to race, an outcome I call “wealth blindness.” I argue that, as professional...
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Challenges on the Road from 9th Avenue to Professional Archaeology (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While the recent uptick in the amount and frequency of contemporarily, socially relevant sessions and symposia held at SAA annual meetings can certainly be said to be commendable—truly, a much-needed and beneficial pursuit/meta-analysis—I think that a significant intersectional aspect...
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Enriching Archaeological Interpretations with Tales from the Rez: Braiding Indigenous Knowledge into Archaeological Praxis (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “In order to know yourself and find your way in this life, you need to know where you and your People come from and understand their relationship with the land.” This insight formed critical foundational knowledge that guides my Indigenous archaeological praxis. My experience and...
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From Carnage to Credentials: An Amerindian Archaeologist’s Journey from Child Laborer to Professor Emeritus (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After nine months my mother “broke her water” on 18 June of 1956. Because my father was away, my mother walked the two hours from Stockton through agricultural fields to the hospital in Frenchcamp where I was born. Despite my father’s herculean efforts, we were caught in a seemingly...
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From the Varrio to the Academy: Chicano Perspectives in Indigenous Archaeology (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a first-generation scholar from a low-income campesino background, the lived experience of socioeconomic inequality, racism, and other issues influence teaching, research, and scholarship. While the varrio, or “hood,” is often associated with negative connotations, positive aspects,...
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I Didn’t Get Here Because of My Trauma: I’m Here Because I’m Good at Archaeology (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The monoraciality of archaeology perpetuates systems where many European American archaeologists assume archaeologists who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) have arrived because of affirmative action. Our presence is considered the result of traumatic lives that led to...
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More Than a Notion: Archaeology’s Issue with Using Social Theory to Comfortably Perceive the Lives of Marginalized Peoples (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In archaeology, we like to theorize about those who lived at the margins of society, the systematically oppressed, the class struggle of those who existed at the bottom and the “creative” ways in which they “persisted,” “resisted,” and survived. However, despite this seemingly...
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Papa’s Work Is Not Fathering (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stereotypes and concomitant expectations for priority setting in archaeological careerism exist in tension with deep anthropological drives to understand and embody family ideals. Archaeologists, long confronted with the idea that “engendering archaeology” (cf. Conkey and Gero 1991)...
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“Too Hood for This”: Navigating the Profession of Archaeology and Finding My Place (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I found my roots in archaeology in undergraduate school during an archaeological excavation at the Stewart Indian School in Carson City, NV. It was an empowering experience. It was the first time I witnessed a BIPOC community having autonomy over their historical narratives. It also...