Hiding the Negro presence in Ancient America/ Smithsonian Institute, 1935

Critical ANALYSIS by Nikki Luellen about the 1935 document published by the Smithsonian and written by Ales Hrdlicka.

Though there have been several accounts of Black people in America before Columbus from early explorers, and several anthropologists from Europe and America believed that there were Negro or Black people in America before Columbus, Ales Hrdlicka dismisses these narratives and states that there isn’t enough evidence to prove that Black people were in America before Columbus, and if they were, they made no significant contribution. Moreover, Ales Hrdlicka was a racist and committed horrible atrocities against Black people and Native American and the scariest part of it all is that for 40 years he held a very high position in the Smithsonian, which to most academics, is one of the most well respected institutions and trustworthy sources of scientific information. While looking at this document, I noticed most anthropologists mentioned, as they do presently, that the early Negro skulls could have come from Africa but focuses only on Negroes outside of Africa. When this document was written, there was no evidence outside of the skull shape suggesting where these Negro skulls could have come from yet the possibility of Negroes from Africa populating the Americas was conveniently, as they are today, left out of the narrative.

Video Transcript:
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Link to book:
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/23914/SMC_94_Hrdlicka_1935_11_1-58.pdf

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