M L Blakey
Biographic Data
| ID | 48230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M L Blakey |
| GIVEN NAMES | M L |
| FAMILY NAME | Blakey |
| SIGNATURE | BLAKEY M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Howard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2906-1777 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 784 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Aaba Task Force on the Ethical Study of Human Remains Recommendations: Proposal for the Management and Oversight of Community Partnership and Ethical Stewardship of Human Remains
Ethically responsible and culturally acceptable management, study, and stewardship of legacy skeletal and other human remains currently held and managed in scientific institutions is a longstanding concern that, over the length of these collections' existence, has been exiguously addressed. Most recently, the ethical treatment of legacy collections of individuals from the African American community in the United States has been especially highlig…
Remembering Leith
Understanding racism in physical (biological) anthropology
The mainstream of American physical anthropology began as racist and eugenical science that defended slavery, restricted “non‐Nordic” immigration, and justified Jim Crow segregation. After World War II, the field became more anti‐racial than anti‐racist. It has continued as a study of natural influences on human variation and thus continues to evade the social histories of inequitable biological variation. Also reflecting its occupancy of white s…
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Archaeology under the Blinding Light of Race
Racism is defined as a modern system of inequity emergent in Atlantic slavery in which "Whiteness" is born and embedded. This essay describes its transformation. The operation of racist Whiteness in current archaeology and related anthropological practices is demonstrated in the denigration and exclusion of Black voices and the denial of racism and its diverse appropriations afforded the White authorial voice. The story of New York's African Buri…
The Fire this Time
The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn? Hmm. Anthropology was burning before I began my undergraduate career at Howard University in 1975. At least that’s when I first smelled the smoke. I had been
On the biodeterministic imagination
Biological determinism continues to rest on belief rather than evidence. The racial genetics of David Reich and his immediate predecessors exemplify science applied as racist ideology which obscures evidence for social criticism and moral accountability for inequity
Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Colonial New York: A Bioarchaeological Study of the New York African Burial Ground
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction African American Bioarchaeology and the New York African Burial Ground Project The New York African Burial Ground Site Dental Enamel Development and Disruption: Hypoplasia Overview of Materials and Method Results A Temporal Analysis Utilizing the Archaeological Record Harris Lines Discussion: Life Histories in Context Conclusion Note References
African Burial Ground Project: Paradigm for cooperation
The eighteenth‐century African Burial Ground in New York City began as a municipal cemetery in which the remains of 15,000 enslaved Africans were buried. It was abandoned to urban development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but rediscovered at the turn of the twenty‐first, its location in the heart of downtown Manhattan becoming the site of extraordinary religious, political and scientific conflict and collaboration. The site went …
Enamel hypoplasia and early mortality: Bioarcheological support for the Barker hypothesis
The Barker hypothesis asserts that stressful events early in the life history of an individual have negative health consequences later in adulthood. The hypothesis initially focused on prenatal stressors as indicated by birth weight and related outcomes. This initial concern with the fetal phase of development led to its description as the “fetal programming” or “fetal origins” hypothesis. The realization that stressors in the postnatal phase had…
An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly Engaged Biocultural Research
The New York African Burial Ground Project: Past Biases, Current Dilemmas, and Future Research Opportunities
Bioarchaeology of the African Diaspora in the Americas: Its Origins and Scope
The results of over 70 years of African Diasporic bioarchaeology are discussed and explained as emerging from distinct interests and traditions of African Diasporan studies, sociocultural anthropology, history, physical anthropology, and archaeology, in that chronological order. Physical anthropology is the core discipline of African-American bioarchaeology, yet it has been the least informed by cultural and historical literatures. Forensic appro…
The New York African Burial Ground Project: An Examination of Enslaved Lives, A Construction of Ancestral Ties
Comment on “hypoplastic area method for analyzing enamel hypoplasia” B.E. Ensor and J.D. Irish, American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1995) 98: 507‐517.
Commentary: Past is present: Comments on “in the realm of politics: Prospects for public participation in African-American plantation archaeology”
Seizing intellectual power: The dialogue at the New York African Burial Ground
The Eternal Triangle: Race, Class, and IQ The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. Richard J. Herrnstein , Charles Murray
The New York African Burial Ground Phenomenon
W. Montague Cobb (1904–1990): Physical Anthropologist, Anatomist, and Activist
William Montague Cobb's life and work reflect a profound integration of art, literature, social activism, and science. This article presents some of the highlights of his academic development and professional contributions. We have considered his early academic development within the contexts of the formative years of American physical anthropology, Howard University Medical School, and the social issues in American society that influenced Cobb. …
Frequency and chronological distribution of dental enamel hypoplasia in enslaved African Americans: A test of the weaning hypothesis
The dentition of 27 enslaved African Americans from archaeological sites in Maryland and Virginia were examined. All 17 males and 7 of the 10 females in this study exhibited enamel hypoplastic defects indicative of systemic nutritional and disease stresses interfering with amelogenesis. Estimates of the ages of occurrence of these defects show that most occur between 1.5 and 4.5 years of age, 0.5–3.75 years later than historically documented wean…
William Montague Cobb (1904–1990): Obituary
A comparison of dental enamel defects in Christian and Meroitic populations from Geili, central Sudan
El Geili, located in the region of the Middle Nile, was occupied successively by Neolithic, Meroitic, and Christian populations at betweenn 3,500 BC and 1,500 AD. The scant archaeological evidence suggests that the Meroitic and Christian populations at Geili were patoral nomads. Dental enamel hypoplasias, indicators of general stress (malnutrition/disease), were studied in order to characterize and compare the health of these groups. A total of 1…
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900 . Alfred W. Crosby
Candidates for Executive Board Member-at-large State A
Toward a Critical Archaeology [and Comments and Reply]
Seizing intellectual power: The dialogue at the New York African Burial Ground
Bioarchaeology of the African Diaspora in the Americas: Its Origins and Scope
The results of over 70 years of African Diasporic bioarchaeology are discussed and explained as emerging from distinct interests and traditions of African Diasporan studies, sociocultural anthropology, history, physical anthropology, and archaeology, in that chronological order. Physical anthropology is the core discipline of African-American bioarchaeology, yet it has been the least informed by cultural and historical literatures. Forensic appro…
Intrinsic Social and Political Bias in the History of American Physical Anthropology: With Special Reference to the Work of Aleš Hrdlička
Prior to World War II research in physical anthropology functioned within its social and political context to produce an inegalitarian ideology. Aleš Hrdlička, 1869-1943, held a prominent place in these developments. Subsequent contextual changes (not simply hypothesis testing) produced epistemological changes.Although the field has been liberalized, many of the research interests and beliefs regarding the concept of race of the pre-war period re…
Frequency and chronological distribution of dental enamel hypoplasia in enslaved African Americans: A test of the weaning hypothesis
The dentition of 27 enslaved African Americans from archaeological sites in Maryland and Virginia were examined. All 17 males and 7 of the 10 females in this study exhibited enamel hypoplastic defects indicative of systemic nutritional and disease stresses interfering with amelogenesis. Estimates of the ages of occurrence of these defects show that most occur between 1.5 and 4.5 years of age, 0.5–3.75 years later than historically documented wean…
Deciduous enamel defects in prehistoric Americans from Dickson Mounds: Prenatal and postnatal stress
The month of onset, duration, and incidence of dental enamel hypoplasia and hypocalcification was determined in sub‐adults from the Dickson Mounds (Illinois) skeletal series ( A . D . 950–1300). The onset of enamel defects occurred predominantly during the intrauterine period, suggesting maternal stress. There are marked differences in survivorship and the duration of enamel disruption in those affected prenatally and postnatally. The relationshi…
The New York African Burial Ground Project: Past Biases, Current Dilemmas, and Future Research Opportunities
The New York African Burial Ground Project: An Examination of Enslaved Lives, A Construction of Ancestral Ties
Archaeology under the Blinding Light of Race
Racism is defined as a modern system of inequity emergent in Atlantic slavery in which "Whiteness" is born and embedded. This essay describes its transformation. The operation of racist Whiteness in current archaeology and related anthropological practices is demonstrated in the denigration and exclusion of Black voices and the denial of racism and its diverse appropriations afforded the White authorial voice. The story of New York's African Buri…
African Burial Ground Project: Paradigm for cooperation
The eighteenth‐century African Burial Ground in New York City began as a municipal cemetery in which the remains of 15,000 enslaved Africans were buried. It was abandoned to urban development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but rediscovered at the turn of the twenty‐first, its location in the heart of downtown Manhattan becoming the site of extraordinary religious, political and scientific conflict and collaboration. The site went …
Understanding racism in physical (biological) anthropology
The mainstream of American physical anthropology began as racist and eugenical science that defended slavery, restricted “non‐Nordic” immigration, and justified Jim Crow segregation. After World War II, the field became more anti‐racial than anti‐racist. It has continued as a study of natural influences on human variation and thus continues to evade the social histories of inequitable biological variation. Also reflecting its occupancy of white s…
Commentary: Past is present: Comments on “in the realm of politics: Prospects for public participation in African-American plantation archaeology”
The Fire this Time
The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn? Hmm. Anthropology was burning before I began my undergraduate career at Howard University in 1975. At least that’s when I first smelled the smoke. I had been
On the biodeterministic imagination
Biological determinism continues to rest on belief rather than evidence. The racial genetics of David Reich and his immediate predecessors exemplify science applied as racist ideology which obscures evidence for social criticism and moral accountability for inequity
Social policy, economics, and demographic change in Nanticoke‐Moor ethnohistory
The Nanticoke‐Moors of Delaware are an ethnic group of Native American, Afro‐American, and Euro‐American descent. Their physiognomic and ethnic marginality has subjected them to a limited range of social and economic options under the influence of American racial policies. This article concerns their ethnic formation in the colonial period and the demographic effects (changes in fertility, mortality, and structure) of their 19th‐ and 20th‐century…
The Eternal Triangle: Race, Class, and IQ The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. Richard J. Herrnstein , Charles Murray
A comparison of dental enamel defects in Christian and Meroitic populations from Geili, central Sudan
El Geili, located in the region of the Middle Nile, was occupied successively by Neolithic, Meroitic, and Christian populations at betweenn 3,500 BC and 1,500 AD. The scant archaeological evidence suggests that the Meroitic and Christian populations at Geili were patoral nomads. Dental enamel hypoplasias, indicators of general stress (malnutrition/disease), were studied in order to characterize and compare the health of these groups. A total of 1…
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900 . Alfred W. Crosby
Deciduous enamel defects in prehistoric Americans from Dickson Mounds: Prenatal and postnatal stress
The month of onset, duration, and incidence of dental enamel hypoplasia and hypocalcification was determined in sub‐adults from the Dickson Mounds (Illinois) skeletal series ( A . D . 950–1300). The onset of enamel defects occurred predominantly during the intrauterine period, suggesting maternal stress. There are marked differences in survivorship and the duration of enamel disruption in those affected prenatally and postnatally. The relationshi…
Toward a Critical Archaeology [and Comments and Reply]
Intrinsic Social and Political Bias in the History of American Physical Anthropology: With Special Reference to the Work of Aleš Hrdlička
Prior to World War II research in physical anthropology functioned within its social and political context to produce an inegalitarian ideology. Aleš Hrdlička, 1869-1943, held a prominent place in these developments. Subsequent contextual changes (not simply hypothesis testing) produced epistemological changes.Although the field has been liberalized, many of the research interests and beliefs regarding the concept of race of the pre-war period re…
Social policy, economics, and demographic change in Nanticoke‐Moor ethnohistory
The Nanticoke‐Moors of Delaware are an ethnic group of Native American, Afro‐American, and Euro‐American descent. Their physiognomic and ethnic marginality has subjected them to a limited range of social and economic options under the influence of American racial policies. This article concerns their ethnic formation in the colonial period and the demographic effects (changes in fertility, mortality, and structure) of their 19th‐ and 20th‐century…
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900 . Alfred W. Crosby
Candidates for Executive Board Member-at-large State A
A comparison of dental enamel defects in Christian and Meroitic populations from Geili, central Sudan
El Geili, located in the region of the Middle Nile, was occupied successively by Neolithic, Meroitic, and Christian populations at betweenn 3,500 BC and 1,500 AD. The scant archaeological evidence suggests that the Meroitic and Christian populations at Geili were patoral nomads. Dental enamel hypoplasias, indicators of general stress (malnutrition/disease), were studied in order to characterize and compare the health of these groups. A total of 1…
William Montague Cobb (1904–1990): Obituary
W. Montague Cobb (1904–1990): Physical Anthropologist, Anatomist, and Activist
William Montague Cobb's life and work reflect a profound integration of art, literature, social activism, and science. This article presents some of the highlights of his academic development and professional contributions. We have considered his early academic development within the contexts of the formative years of American physical anthropology, Howard University Medical School, and the social issues in American society that influenced Cobb. …
Frequency and chronological distribution of dental enamel hypoplasia in enslaved African Americans: A test of the weaning hypothesis
The dentition of 27 enslaved African Americans from archaeological sites in Maryland and Virginia were examined. All 17 males and 7 of the 10 females in this study exhibited enamel hypoplastic defects indicative of systemic nutritional and disease stresses interfering with amelogenesis. Estimates of the ages of occurrence of these defects show that most occur between 1.5 and 4.5 years of age, 0.5–3.75 years later than historically documented wean…
The New York African Burial Ground Phenomenon
The Eternal Triangle: Race, Class, and IQ The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. Richard J. Herrnstein , Charles Murray
Comment on “hypoplastic area method for analyzing enamel hypoplasia” B.E. Ensor and J.D. Irish, American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1995) 98: 507‐517.
Commentary: Past is present: Comments on “in the realm of politics: Prospects for public participation in African-American plantation archaeology”
Seizing intellectual power: The dialogue at the New York African Burial Ground
The New York African Burial Ground Project: An Examination of Enslaved Lives, A Construction of Ancestral Ties
Bioarchaeology of the African Diaspora in the Americas: Its Origins and Scope
The results of over 70 years of African Diasporic bioarchaeology are discussed and explained as emerging from distinct interests and traditions of African Diasporan studies, sociocultural anthropology, history, physical anthropology, and archaeology, in that chronological order. Physical anthropology is the core discipline of African-American bioarchaeology, yet it has been the least informed by cultural and historical literatures. Forensic appro…
The New York African Burial Ground Project: Past Biases, Current Dilemmas, and Future Research Opportunities
An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly Engaged Biocultural Research
Enamel hypoplasia and early mortality: Bioarcheological support for the Barker hypothesis
The Barker hypothesis asserts that stressful events early in the life history of an individual have negative health consequences later in adulthood. The hypothesis initially focused on prenatal stressors as indicated by birth weight and related outcomes. This initial concern with the fetal phase of development led to its description as the “fetal programming” or “fetal origins” hypothesis. The realization that stressors in the postnatal phase had…
African Burial Ground Project: Paradigm for cooperation
The eighteenth‐century African Burial Ground in New York City began as a municipal cemetery in which the remains of 15,000 enslaved Africans were buried. It was abandoned to urban development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but rediscovered at the turn of the twenty‐first, its location in the heart of downtown Manhattan becoming the site of extraordinary religious, political and scientific conflict and collaboration. The site went …
Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Colonial New York: A Bioarchaeological Study of the New York African Burial Ground
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction African American Bioarchaeology and the New York African Burial Ground Project The New York African Burial Ground Site Dental Enamel Development and Disruption: Hypoplasia Overview of Materials and Method Results A Temporal Analysis Utilizing the Archaeological Record Harris Lines Discussion: Life Histories in Context Conclusion Note References
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Archaeology under the Blinding Light of Race
Racism is defined as a modern system of inequity emergent in Atlantic slavery in which "Whiteness" is born and embedded. This essay describes its transformation. The operation of racist Whiteness in current archaeology and related anthropological practices is demonstrated in the denigration and exclusion of Black voices and the denial of racism and its diverse appropriations afforded the White authorial voice. The story of New York's African Buri…
The Fire this Time
The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn? Hmm. Anthropology was burning before I began my undergraduate career at Howard University in 1975. At least that’s when I first smelled the smoke. I had been
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