The Challenge of Race to American Historical Archaeology
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Historical archaeologists should be leaders in examining the archaeological dimensions of race and racism in the United States. With few exceptions, though, this has not been the case, as most archaeologists have conflated race and ethnicity. American historical archaeologists have a great opportunity to provide new insights to the anthropological investigation of race and racism if they choose to take this course of action, [historical archaeology, race and racism, archaeological interpretation, African Americans, Irish Americans]
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