Introduction: Current Directions in Community Archaeology of the African Diaspora.

This article introduces the special issue, "Community Archaeology of the African Diaspora." This collection of papers grew out of a session at the 2020 Society for Historical Archaeology conference in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional authors invited to add further geographical and methodological diversity. The papers in this issue address a single question-how are archaeologists currently involved with community archaeology projects related to the African Diaspora?-and reflects the wide array of approaches currently being implemented across the discipline.