Hood Archaeologies: Impacts of the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Archaeological Practice and Pedagogy

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.