Archaeology's Role in Changing a Generation of Youth: Exploring Education and Intersectionality

Summary

Archaeology in the Community (AITC) is an urban-based archaeology organization founded with the intent of providing science opportunities to marginalized youth who would have never been exposed to archaeology through their education system. This paper highlights how intersectional theory is used by AITC to expose and increase students’ knowledge of archaeology as a science. Intersectionality theory emphasizes the structural intersection of social categories and studies the concept of discriminative institutions on disenfranchised groups or minorities. Through grassroots activism and non-traditional education techniques, AITC has sought to disrupt the systems that have been in place for years preventing the students from exposure to various forms of science. Through understanding the particular model of intersectionality impacting the urban, socio-economic challenged, African American youth of DC, AITC has been able to create programs which have made an impact on these youth through the teaching archaeology.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Intersectionality as Emancipatory Archaeology   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2017

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