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Aaron Douglas, “An Idyll of the Deep South,” 1934

For Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility.
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Advocating to ensure proper treatment of African and African Diaspora material culture, promote more people of African descent to enter the field of archaeology, ensure community collaborations, raise and address concerns related to African peoples worldwide, and highlights the past and present achievements and contributions people of African descent have made to the field of archaeology.

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Archaeology in the Time of Black Lives Matter

Two weeks after the initial panel, 60 attendees gathered for a workshop geared towards creating a resource guide that would rest as the foundation of an an anti-racist archaeological praxis.

“To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it.”

— JAMES BALDWIN, THE FIRE NEXT TIME

Strength in Numbers
A Vibrant, Global Community of Peers

Join SBA and join a cadre of scholars around the globe as we form a community of similar yet diverse student and professional archaeologists grappling with the challenges of preserving heritage, sharing insight, and molding a new, more equitable, and just future for archaeology and the world.

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Where Black Archaeology Is Happening Now

Gabby Omoni Hartemann

Gabby Omoni Hartemann’s research centers on the continuity of lived experiences of Africans in the …

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Council for Museum Anthropology Annual Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology: Clay, Ceramics, Curation

Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Created in partnership with the Gardiner Ceramic Museum, this workshop will explore postcolonial, transnational and Queer curation of ceramics, with a focus on the ceramic art of Dame Magdalene Odundo and the materiality of clay.