Statement and Commitments from SAA Editors to Change the Underrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, and Other Scholars from Diverse Backgrounds in Our Publications

Introduction

“…But the confluence of these “twin pandemics” seems to have made a great deal more people receptive to genuine self‐reflection and substantive change for the first time. For instance, the editors of the journals and publications of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) released a statement in July 2020 publicly acknowledging representational shortcomings of the SAA's publications and noting that they “must actively take on the commitment to anti‐racist and anti‐colonialist structural change as individuals and as an organization” (Gamble et al., 2020). Such statements are welcome and have the potential to open the space for reckoning.…”