The College Fix accusations of “scientific racism” made against them are “patently false.”
“Falsely playing the race card as has been done here to try to ban a book simply because one doesn’t agree with the contents is unhelpful to the fight against genuine racism,” said San Jose State Anthropology Professor Elizabeth Weiss in an emailed statement.
Weiss and her co-author, attorney James Springer, take a “critical look at laws that mandate the return of human remains from museums and laboratories to ancestral burial grounds,” according to the book’s promotional materials.
Some academics have called for the book to have its open access revoked to prevent “further harm to Indigenous communities and scholars,” according to a protest letter.