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Feb 25, 2022 10 tweets 11 min read Read on X
#AAFS2022 come through for the #PioneersofColor a Diverse Narrative of #Forensicanthro Symposium Friday morning (2/25) featuring presentations by a talented group of early career anthropologists who have a wider historical and contextual lens
In the #PioneeresofColor symposium Isis Dwyer @RumandResearch presents “Back to Black: The Legacy and Contributions of Black Pioneers of the 20th Century” spotlighting Caroline Bond Day, Dr. W. Montague Cobb, Drs. M. and K. Clark and Charles P. Warren.
#BlackinBioanth #AAFS2022 “Back to Black: The Legacy and Contributions of Black Pion
@rumandresearch quantified the contributions of #PioneersofColor Day, Cobb, the Clarks, & Warren in 3 major #forensicanthro themes:
1. Perceptions of Race and Ancestry Estimation
2. Skeletal Collections & Quantifying Human Variation
3. Identification of Individuals
#AAFS2022 Black Pioneers in Forensic Anthropology, the Legacy in Foren
Context is important in #forensicanthro.

All the #PioneersofColor were educated in the Jim Crow Era, the scholars span the traditional eras of forensic anthropology, and are recent figures.
#AAFS2022 #BlackinBioanth #BlackHistory Black pioneers in context from Dwyer at al 2022. Caroline Bo
Caroline Bond Day, the first #BlackinBioanth M.A. She studied at Radcliff College as a student of Ernest Hooton and was an early critical scholar of mixed individuals, anthropometry, and genealogy within the Black community.
#PioneersofColor #AAFS2022
Dr. William Montague Cobb, the first PhD #BlackinBioanth was an anatomist, physician, educator, & activist scholar who challenged racist science, discrimination & health inequities with his scholarship, mentorship & documented skeletal collection.
#PioneersofColor #AAFS2022
Drs. Mamie and Kenneth Clark were psychologists whose research showed the harmful effects of segregation to children & was cited in the 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision. The Clarks were Black scholars studying the perception of race.
#PioneersofColor #AAFS2022
Charles Warren was an educator, applied anthropologist who dispelled myths about SE Asian Islanders, #AAFS #forensicanthro section program chair & secretary, did forensic case work, and one of the longest serving military forensic anthropologists.
#PioneersofColor #AAFS2022
Some examples of how Black scholars are erased from history by @RumandResearch:
PhD bias, publication restrictions, plagiarism, misrepresentation, selective engagement, & limited opportunities in the discipline 

#AAFS2022  #BlackinBioanth #PioneersofColor #BiBAWeek2022
Moving forward #AAFS :
Acknowledge and engage, look outside #forensicanthro and across disciplines, use citation as practice, amplify & support, & use our resource as a start (developed by @AnthropologisTL )
#PioneersofColor #AAFS2022 #BlackinBioAnth

blackbioanth.com/back-to-black

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