SANKOFA? How Racism and Sexism Skewed New York's Epochal Black
Research Project is an investigative report on an important - and
costly - anthropological study that failed. The research was on
bones dug up from a black slave cemetery in New York City. The
city's current black population - the "Descendant Community" - was
promised key information about their ancestors and antecedents. But
little was provided. This failure, carefully described here, casts
light on the relationship between the researchers who do the work
and the federal government, which pays for it - with taxpayers'
dollars. The Fed failed to monitor this project closely until it
slipped its traces. The scientists and the government hid the
problems from the public. Only later was Author David Zimmerman
able to pursue the matter through documents and interviews with
some of the participating scientists. The Project Leader,
Anthropologist Michael L. Blakey, PhD, and his close associates
refused Zimmerman's interview requests. Others scientists were
forthcoming. This is a sad but dramatic account, written for all
readers, of science gone wrong. It is a cautionary tale designed to
enlighten readers and, it is hoped, discourage other such
debacles..
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