{"id":6883,"date":"2021-06-03T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/?p=6883"},"modified":"2021-07-03T17:33:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T17:33:46","slug":"enslaved-remains-and-scientific-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/enslaved-remains-and-scientific-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Enslaved remains, scientific racism and the work of counter-history"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Return and Repatriate: Abollish the Morton Collection” Movement poster, 2021. IMAGE CREDIT: https:\/\/stayhappening.com\/e\/return-and-repatriate-abolish-the-morton-collection-E2ISTJPW7RT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ricardo Roque<\/strong> published the article \u201cEnslaved remains, scientific racism and the work of counter-history<\/strong>\u201d in the History of Anthropology Review<\/em><\/strong>. This essay is one of a series of \u201cParticipant Observations<\/a>\u201d on the removal of the Samuel Morton Cranial Collection from public display and legacies of scientific racism in museums.<\/p>\n

The essay is published in two parts, Part One \u2013 Inscription<\/a> \/ Part Two \u2013 Recollection<\/a> and it available online in open access at the History of Anthropology Review<\/em> website,\u00a0through the following links:<\/p>\n

Ricardo Roque, \u201cEnslaved Remains, Scientific Racism, and the Work of Counter-History (Part One),<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0History of Anthropology Review<\/em> 45 (2021): https:\/\/histanthro.org\/news\/observations\/enslaved-remains\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Ricardo Roque, \u201cEnslaved Remains, Scientific Racism, and the Work of Counter-History (Part Two)<\/strong>,\u201d\u00a0History of Anthropology Review<\/em>\u00a045 (2021): https:\/\/histanthro.org\/news\/observations\/enslaved-remains-scientific-racism-and-the-work-of-counter-history-part-two\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/em><\/p>\n

The recent debate over the relocation and restitution of over 50 human crania of enslaved people in Samuel George Morton\u2019s collection at the Penn Museum prompts a reflection on anthropology\u2019s entanglements with the history of slavery. When the HAR editorial team asked me to offer some thoughts a propos this event, I revisited my research notes in search of archival traces of these complex crossings. This short note is an analytical reflection about one such trace\u2014a letter exchange found in the private papers of another notorious race scholar and skull collector and Morton\u2019s contemporary) British surgeon Joseph Barnard Davis (1801-1881). I ask how enslavement becomes epistemically and politically embedded in collections of human remains. I ask how historiographical work may help us to counter, subvert, heal, and remember the presence and effects of these past processes today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ricardo Roque (2021). in History of Anthropology Review. This essay is one of a series of \u201cParticipant Observations\u201d on the removal of the Samuel Morton Cranial Collection from public display and legacies of scientific racism in museums. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[286,33,77,40],"tags":[147,282,124,92,94,129,95],"class_list":["post-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-articles","category-ensaios","category-publicacao","category-investigacao","tag-anthropology","tag-colonialism","tag-memory","tag-museum","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-ciencia"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["en","pt"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"pt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7214,"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions\/7214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gi-imperios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}