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Ivan Van Sertima

1935 – 2009

Guyana; United States (Rutgers, New Jersey)

Guyanese-born Rutgers professor and founding editor of the Journal of African Civilizations, whose They Came Before Columbus (1976) argued for pre-Columbian African contact with the Americas, a thesis disputed by archaeologists.

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Panoramic photograph of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, c. 1913, where Van Sertima later taught
Credit: Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs collection. License: Public domain (LOC: no known restrictions; c. 1913).

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Sources

  1. Rutgers University Department of Africana Studies, "Ivan Van Sertima (In Memoriam, 1935-2009)" (Primary source)
  2. Gabriel Haslip-Viera, Bernard Ortiz de Montellano and Warren Barbour, "Robbing Native American Cultures: Van Sertima's Afrocentricity and the Olmecs," Current Anthropology 38:3 (1997) (Scholarly)
  3. BlackPast, "Ivan Van Sertima (1935-2009)" (Reference)
  4. The Root, Keith Josef Adkins, "Ivan Van Sertima: Historian or Dreamer" (2009) (Reference)

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