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Farewell, 2020: Lessons Learned

Catlin Tucker

It is a tradition I have continued through the years. Trying to wrap my mind around 2020 to craft my newsletter was no small feat. As I began to write, I realized that 2020 for me was a year of extremes. The most challenging aspect of 2020 has been the toll it has taken on our relationships with others. This is not new.

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How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

Sapiens

Archaeological evidence and Oral Histories show people in what is today Ghana lived sustainably for millennia—until European colonial powers and the widespread trade of enslaved people changed everything. While Logan’s work revealed the plants Banda residents ate, other research reconstructed the region’s broader environmental history.

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Proof Points: Black college enrollment sharply down during Covid summer of 2020

The Hechinger Report

As the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, many warned that it would increase educational gaps between the haves and the have-nots. This first report, covering the summer of 2020, is the first time the organization has analyzed summer enrollment. Will history repeat? Now the proof is starting to come in.

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OPINION: Let’s change our approach to traditionally overlooked students

The Hechinger Report

To start with, colleges must consider factors other than the traditional standardized scores when recruiting underserved students from communities with few economic, health and educational resources. Dominican launched the Center for Cultural Liberation in 2020 to provide students of color with a place to gain a sense of belonging.

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A dismal report card in math and reading

The Hechinger Report

The starkest example of growing inequality is in eighth grade math, wherethe achievement gap grew to the largest in the history of the test. Students who were in eighth grade in early 2024, when this exam was administered, were in fourth grade when the pandemic first shuttered schools in March 2020. That’s a big deal.

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Feminist Anthropology Today: Thinking about Gendered Binaries, Violence against Women, and the Praxis of Feminist Anthropology

Anthropology News

Problematizing Gendered Binaries We began our time as AFA AN Contributing Editors in March 2020, coinciding with the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, and are ending our tenure in a (presumably) post-pandemic world. Put otherwise, what can these pieces convey about what is pressing for our feminist anthropological community?

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Early Humans in the Heart of the Rainforest: A 150,000-Year-Old Mystery Unfolds

Anthropology.net

Quarrying activity at Anyama between 2020 and 2021 irreversibly damaged much of the Bété I site, erasing priceless evidence of our past. "It This serves as a stark reminder of how fragile our connection to deep history is. But what if that story is incomplete? Their conclusion?