Quotation of the Day: Museum Reckons With Remains Collected ... - The New York Times

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Sunday, October 15, 2023

“But at the time, scientists were trading people like kids trade Pokémon cards.”

CARLINA MARIA de la COVA, an anthropology professor at the University of South Carolina, on the practices of eugenic scientists, who focused on racial differences in studying remains. The American Museum of Natural History plans to overhaul its stewardship of some 12,000 human remains, including skeletons of Indigenous and enslaved people taken from their graves.

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