Archaeology in Color: Undergraduate Voices on Their Time in the Discipline

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeology in Color: Undergraduate Voices on Their Time in the Discipline" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Despite the talent, passion or interest of undergraduates of color in archaeology, each of our speakers—and many students like them—have still had to meticulously pick through class rosters to find even one other person of color in their courses. The lack of diverse perspectives in the classroom can reinforce stereotypes and stifle cultural understanding. Every perspective is invaluable, yet in archeology our perspective is often limited to white, even as we study people and identities from across the globe.

From the practices of accessibility, ceramic analysis, and Indigenous archaeology to the politics of representation, undergraduate mentorship, and knowledge production, these students of color critically examine their lived experiences as undergraduates. In doing so, they share how they hope to see the field change — and change it themselves — with the help of working archaeologists.