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Gussie White (30 January 1889 – 23 January 1953) [1] was an American archaeologist, civil rights activist, and Works Progress Administration employee, [2] [3] who in that role was one of the few named Black women (of at least 87 total) [4] involved in the excavation of the Irene Mound (a significant site of Georgia prehistory).
Joe Caldwell was a prominent figure in Georgia archaeology. In 1937, Caldwell began work at the Irene site in Chatham County, Georgia. This work was done as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Caldwell's workforce was made up of nearly all African-American women.
Theresa A. Singleton is an American archaeologist and writer who focuses on the archaeology of African Americans, the African diaspora, and slavery in the United States.She is a leading archaeologist applying comparative approaches to the study of slavery in the Americas. [1]
Many women, especially black women, took part in the excavations of the Irene Mound site in the 1930s. [8] Gussie White is one of the most prominent examples of these women archaeologists. References
Franklin, M. 1997. “Power to the people”: sociopolitics and the archaeology of black Americans. Historical Archaeology 31(3), 36-50. Franklin, M. 2001. A Black feminist-inspired archaeology? Journal of Social Archaeology 1(1), 108-125. Franklin, M. and McKee, L. 2004. African Diaspora Archaeologies: Present Insights and Expanding Discourses.
The Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA) is an international organization of Black archaeologists. The Society was founded in 2011. The Society was founded in 2011. The founding board members are Drs. Justin Dunnavant, Ayana Omilade Flewellen, Jay Haigler, Alexandra Jones , and Cheryl LaRoche.
Pages in category "American women archaeologists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 267 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
It is additionally concerned with increasing the representation of women in the discipline of archaeology, and reducing androcentric bias [citation needed] within the field. Feminist archaeology has expanded in recent years to include intersectional analyses, such as Black Feminist archaeology, Indigenous archaeology, and post-colonial archaeology.