FYI:
1. The Bryn Mawr Classical Review (on-line book reviews not
affiliated with H-NET) just published Martin Bernal's 10,000 word
review of Mary Lefkowitz's *Not Out of Africa*. To read the
review point your www browser to URL:
gopher://gopher.lib.virginia.edu:70/00/alpha/bmcr/v96/96-4-5
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2. There will be a continuing debate over the issues raised by
Lefkowitz's book. The URL for that on-line resource (including a
continuing discussion over the next six weeks or so) is:
http://www.harpercollins.com/basic/
For the first time in an electronic forum, Mary Lefkowitz, author
of NOT OUT OF AFRICA: How Afrocentrism Became An Excuse To Teach
Myth As History and Martin Bernal, author of BLACK ATHENA, will
debate modern ideas of the origins of Western Civilization, the
fate of academic standards and the threat to academic freedom.
This debate will run from April 22nd through the month of May. We
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Mary Lefkowitz is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the
Humanities at Wellesley College. She is the author of NOT OUT OF
AFRICA, and many books on ancient Greece and Rome, including
LIVES OF THE GREEK POETS and WOMEN IN GREEK MYTHS, as well as
articles for the Wall Street Journal and the New Republic. She is
the co-editor of Women's Life in Greece and Rome and of the
forthcoming BLACK ATHENA REVISITED.
Martin Bernal was born in London in 1937. He was educated at
King's College Cambridge, Peking University, The University of
California at Berkeley and Harvard. He took a Ph.D in Chinese
Studies at Cambridge. Between 1964 and 1972 he was a Fellow of
King's College before becoming a professor of Government at
Cornell. He was appointed Adjunct Professor in Near Eastern
Studies in 1986. His chief publications since then, have been
BLACK ATHENA: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization
vols. I and II, 1987 and 1991 (Rutgers University Press) and
CADMEAN LETTERS Eisenbrauns 1990. These works have stimulated
much interest and criticism and two films have been made about
the academic and political controversies around his work.
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