February 1 will come and February 28/29 will go but Black history is everyday.
To that end, we have a wonderful presentation-preserved in time, of a battle-debate concerning “this stuff—the stuff that scholarship is made of.” As described by moderator, Utrice Leid, “the battle is as much as for the authority to write history, and for how to write history.”
Ms. Leid continued,
Tonight we enter the world of scholars who have diametrically opposing views on the subject of the origins and foundations of what we know today as Western civilization. One school of thought is that it is distinctly African or Afro-Asian in origin. The other, that Western civilization in large measure is the bequest of Ancient Greece. —-Utrice Leid
The following links connect to additional information to books, persons, and topics as discussed in the actual debate and Q and A period afterward.
Enjoy!:
PANELISTS
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE, author of over thirty books and historian
MARY LEFKOWITZ, historian and author of Not Out of Africa and co-author of Black Athena Revisited
MARTIN BERNAL, historian and author of Black Athena
GUY MACLEAN ROGERS, historian and author of The Sacred of Ephesos and co-author of Black Athena Revisited
MODERATOR
UTRICE LEID, WBIA 99.5FM radio host
BOOKS & TOPICS DISCUSSED
ANCIENT EGYPT: THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD by Gerald Massey
BLACK ATHENA VOLS. I & II by Martin Bernal
THE SACRED IDENTITY OF EPHESOS by Guy Maclean Rogers
AFRICAN ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION by Cheikh Anta Diop
BLACK ATHENA REVISITED by Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy Maclean Rogers
NOT OUT OF AFRICA: HOW AFROCENTISM BECAME AN EXCUSE TO TEACH MYTH AS HISTORY by Mary R. Lefkowitz
THE BELL CURVE: INTELLIGENCE AND CLASS STRUCTURE IN AMERICAN LIFE by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray
CIVILIZATION OR BARBARISM: AN AUTHENTIC ANTHROPOLOGY by Cheikh Anta Diop
TRIBES: HOW RACE, RELIGION, AND IDENTITY DETERMINE SUCCESS IN THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY by Joel Kotkin
RA…E OF PARADISE: COLUMBUS AND THE BIRTH OF RACISM IN THE AMERICAS by Jan R. Carew
THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY by H.G. Wells
THE DECLINE OF THE WEST by Oswald Spengler
I think you have emphasized too much the word Black, and we’ve made the same mistake. Black tells you how you look, but it don’t tell you who you are. The proper name of a people must always relate to land, history, and culture. —Prof. John Henrik Clarke
THE NEW NEGRO: AN INTERPRETATION. ANTHOLOGY Edited by Alain Locke
THE NEGRO DIGS UP HIS PAST, by Arthur A. Schomburg
THE NATURAL GENESIS: A SHORT LIFE by Gerald Massey
CLEOPATRA VII. MARK ANTONY. JULIUS CAESAR
A BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS by Gerald Massey
THE ILIAD by Homer
THE ODYSSEY by Homer
THE ICEMAN INHERITANCE: PREHISTORIC SOURCES OF WESTERN MAN’S RACISM, SEXISM, AND AGGRESSION by Michael Anderson Bradley
SIGNS & SYMBOLS OF PRIMORDIAL MAN: THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES FROM THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS by Albert Churchward
THE ORIGINS OF RELIGIONS by Julien Ries
WHO IS THIS KING OF GLORY? A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE CHRISTOS-MESSIAH TRADITION by Alvin Boyd Kuhn
HITTITE DOCUMENTS, EVIDENCE OF TROJAN WAR?
ABOUT AUTHOR JOEL AUGUSTUS ROGERS
THE CULTURAL UNITY OF BLACK AFRICA: THE DOMAINS OF PATRIARCHY AND MATRIARCHY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY by Cheikh Anta Diop
LEADING AUTHORITY ON EGYPTO-AEGEAN RELATIONS IN THE BRONZE AGE—ERIC H. CLINE-
A CONTESTED HISTORY: EGYPT, GREECE, AND AFROCENTRISM ESSAY by Stanley Burstein
PROFESSOR ASANTE AFROCENTRIC STUDIES
ANACALYPSIS by Godfrey Higgins
AFRICAN PRESENCE IN EARLY ASIA by Runoko Rashidi and Ivan Van Sertima
GLOBAL DIMENSIONS OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA by Joseph E. Harris
DESTRUCTION OF BLACK CIVILIZATION: GREAT ISSUES OF A RACE FROM 4500 B.C. TO 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams
NUBIA:CORRIDOR TO AFRICA by William Y. Adams
CHADWICK’S WORK ON LINEAR A & B
AFRICA, AFRICA OR MIDDLE EAST, A Question of No Question
PORK EATERS, SOUL FOOD HISTORY
THE DECIPHERMENT OF LINEAR B by John Chadwick
WHEN EGYPT RULED THE EAST by George Steindorff, Keith C. Steele
THE RUINS OF EMPIRES by Constantin-François de Chassebœuf de Volney
COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE CULTURES OF THE UPPER AND LOWER NILE .??..Contemporary offering shared in lieu of originally referenced author ??
ABOUT AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN, DR. BEN, YOSEF A.A. BEN-JOCHANNAN
Your…talk keeps telling me what you have not read.
—-Prof. John Henrik Clarke
ALEXANDER THE GREAT VISITS THE ORACLE OF SIWA
RELATED
Report on the Black Athena Debate
at the American Historical Association Meetings, Chicago, 1995
Martin Bernal’s Responses to Black Athena (General and Linguistic Issues)
Bernal’s and Griffin’s Response to Black Athena Revisited in The New York Review
WBAI 99.5FM FREE SPEECH RADIO NYC
Barbour: Believe in God AND Science
James Henry Breasted’s The Oriental Institute
Fundamentals of Argumentation and Debate
Harvard Kennedy School Communications Workshop Series
Whichever side of the debate you find yourself situated on, just know that in The Genealogy Situation Room, we move to find our people.
Rest in power to those who have gone on…
HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH, TODAY AND EVERYDAY!
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