Pan-Africanism in the Academia : John Henrik Clarke and the African Heritage Studies Association

At the 1969 African Studies Association meeting in Montreal, a group of Black intellectuals, challenged the « neocolonial functioning » of the organization and pressed for greater Black representation within its leadership. The conflict gave rise to the African Heritage Studies Association, which, u...

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Autor principal:	Pauline Guedj
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Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2016
Materias:	Black Studies Pan-Africanism African Studies Association African Heritage Studies Association Afrocentrism Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f9558a17a3394e68aea21aa4b0009a612021-12-02T10:32:05ZPan-Africanism in the Academia : John Henrik Clarke and the African Heritage Studies Association1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.69574https://doaj.org/article/f9558a17a3394e68aea21aa4b0009a612016-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/69574https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252At the 1969 African Studies Association meeting in Montreal, a group of Black intellectuals, challenged the « neocolonial functioning » of the organization and pressed for greater Black representation within its leadership. The conflict gave rise to the African Heritage Studies Association, which, under the leadership of John Henrik Clarke, organized meetings as well as transnational networks of Black studies scholars. For many contemporary historians, the 1969 founding of AHSA represents the first manifesto of « Afrocentrism » within North American academic circles. It is thought of as a first attempt to consciously « racialize » social sciences and to claim for the reconstruction of African history along what John Henrik Clarke already called « afrocentric » lines. Based on an ongoing research on African American academic activism, this paper will argue that beyond « Afrocentrism », what the members of AHSA were trying to create was a Pan-African organization grounded in politics and anticolonial struggle. In their view, the rewriting of African history was a first step toward a broader revolution that could affect power relations in the United States and build a united Pan-African community.Pauline GuedjCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleBlack StudiesPan-AfricanismAfrican Studies AssociationAfrican Heritage Studies AssociationAfrocentrismAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2016)
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description	At the 1969 African Studies Association meeting in Montreal, a group of Black intellectuals, challenged the « neocolonial functioning » of the organization and pressed for greater Black representation within its leadership. The conflict gave rise to the African Heritage Studies Association, which, under the leadership of John Henrik Clarke, organized meetings as well as transnational networks of Black studies scholars. For many contemporary historians, the 1969 founding of AHSA represents the first manifesto of « Afrocentrism » within North American academic circles. It is thought of as a first attempt to consciously « racialize » social sciences and to claim for the reconstruction of African history along what John Henrik Clarke already called « afrocentric » lines. Based on an ongoing research on African American academic activism, this paper will argue that beyond « Afrocentrism », what the members of AHSA were trying to create was a Pan-African organization grounded in politics and anticolonial struggle. In their view, the rewriting of African history was a first step toward a broader revolution that could affect power relations in the United States and build a united Pan-African community.
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Pan-Africanism in the Academia : John Henrik Clarke and the African Heritage Studies Association

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