Archive for 'Anthropology'
Ivan Van Sertima: Historian, Linguist, Anthropologist, and Author
Posted on15. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 – 25 May 2009) was a historian, linguist and anthropologist at Rutgers University in the United States. He was noted for his Afrocentric theory of pre-Columbian contact between Africa and the Americas. His work was severely criticized.
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Antenor Firmin: Haitian Scholar and Anthropologist who predicted Barack Obama's Presidency over a century ago
Posted on13. Jan, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) was born and educated in Haiti. He studied law and held several political offices before being posted as a diplomat to Paris, where he was admitted to the Societé d’Anthropologie de Paris and wrote De L’Égalité des Races Humaines. He was a Haitian anthropologist, journalist, and politician.
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[HBCU Presidents] Dr. William H. Harris: Alabama State University
Posted on05. Jan, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Dr. William H. Harris first served as Alabama State University’s (ASU) president from 1994 to 2000. His commitment at that time was to transform ASU into a comprehensive regional university through excellence and diversity. In 2008, Dr. Harris once again took the helm as president of the University, introducing a new vision to transform ASU through excellence in teaching, research, service and a diverse population. He is the author of Keeping the Faith: A. Phillip Randolph, Milton P. Webster, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War.
