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Why are there so few black American archaeologists?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Maria Franklin
Maria Franklin*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology & Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712, USA. [email protected]
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Abstract

A Society for American Archaeology survey (1997) reports that its membership is overwhelmingly ‘European American’. Although it is no longer true that archaeology in the US is simply man's business rather than woman's, where are the practising archaeologists descended from historically marginalized groups so much of archaeology studies?

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 274 , December 1997 , pp. 799 - 801
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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