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In 1986, the Africana Library was named in honor of John Henrik Clarke, who was widely
recognized as a pioneer in the field of Africana Studies. Dr. Clarke played an important role in
the early history of Cornell University's Africana Studies & Research Center. He was a
Distinguished Visiting Professor of African History at the Center in the 1970s. He also made an
invaluable contribution to the establishment of its curricula.
Dr. Clarke is the author of numerous articles that have appeared in leading scholarly journals.
He also served as the author, contributor, or editor of 24 books. In 1968 along with the Black
Caucus of the African Studies Association, Dr. Clarke founded the African Heritage Studies
Association. In 1969 he was appointed as the founding chairman of the Black and Puerto Rican
Studies Department at Hunter College in New York City.
Dr. Clarke was most known and highly regarded for his lifelong devotion to studying and
documenting the histories and contributions of African peoples in Africa and the diaspora.
Dr. Clarke is often quoted as stating that "History is not everything, but it is a starting point.
History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass
they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are, but
more importantly, what they must be. - National Black Report.
| Watch The Grand Master Teacher As He Schools US ALL Dr. John Henrik Clarke The African Mind Listen As Out GREAT Teacher Explains Our Agenda |
In the late 1960s through the late 1980s, the late John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) was one of the foremost architects of the emerging
discipline of Africana Studies/Africalogy as Professor of African World History in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter
College of the City University of New York and as the Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Visiting Professor of African History at Cornell University’
s Africana Studies and Research Center.
The study explores Clarke’s development and conceptualization of Afrikan World History by examining his intellectual influences and training,
his approach to teaching Afrikan World History, his notions regarding Afrikan agency and Afrikan humanity, his explorations of themes of Pan
Afrikanism and national sovereignty, his ideas concerning the relevance of Afrikan culture in historical perspective, and his legacy in Afrikan
intellectualism and culture, including his contribution to the Afrocentric paradigm that is the core of the discipline of Africana Studies/Africalogy.
As an academician and intellectual, Clarke emerged as one of the leading theorists of Afrikan liberation and the uses of Afrikan history as a
foundation and grounding for liberation. Under Clarke’s formulation liberation was defined not simply as freedom from European domination,
but fundamentally as the restoration of Afrikan sovereignty. He explored history’s utility in moving an oppressed and subordinated people from a
position of subjugation on multiple levels to full status as a self-sustaining, self-defining, self-directed, free, and independent people on a
global stage.
Further, the study examines the influence of indigenous Afrikan intellectualism in the United States in Afrikan cultural and intellectual history.
Although a leader among European academy-trained Afrikan intellectuals who joined the European academy largely beginning in the 1970s,
Clarke’s education and training were the product of a movement for the indigenization of Afrikan academic intellectualism in Harlem of the
1930s that can be traced back to the early nineteenth century. This is the first extensive critical examination of Clarke as an exemplar of
indigenous intellectualism in Afrikan culture in the United States.
In closing brothers abd sisters Dr. John Henrik Clarke perhaps is one of the Greatest African scholars of the 20th century it is in our best
interest to make sure our children is aware of the Grand Master Teacher. It has been said a people can't ever know where they are going if they
don't know where they have been. Well brothers and sisters Dr. John Henrik Clarke is a Great guide to discover where our people have been.
The National Black Young Men & Women of America job is to help guide where we are going. - NBTV Report.
discipline of Africana Studies/Africalogy as Professor of African World History in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter
College of the City University of New York and as the Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Visiting Professor of African History at Cornell University’
s Africana Studies and Research Center.
The study explores Clarke’s development and conceptualization of Afrikan World History by examining his intellectual influences and training,
his approach to teaching Afrikan World History, his notions regarding Afrikan agency and Afrikan humanity, his explorations of themes of Pan
Afrikanism and national sovereignty, his ideas concerning the relevance of Afrikan culture in historical perspective, and his legacy in Afrikan
intellectualism and culture, including his contribution to the Afrocentric paradigm that is the core of the discipline of Africana Studies/Africalogy.
As an academician and intellectual, Clarke emerged as one of the leading theorists of Afrikan liberation and the uses of Afrikan history as a
foundation and grounding for liberation. Under Clarke’s formulation liberation was defined not simply as freedom from European domination,
but fundamentally as the restoration of Afrikan sovereignty. He explored history’s utility in moving an oppressed and subordinated people from a
position of subjugation on multiple levels to full status as a self-sustaining, self-defining, self-directed, free, and independent people on a
global stage.
Further, the study examines the influence of indigenous Afrikan intellectualism in the United States in Afrikan cultural and intellectual history.
Although a leader among European academy-trained Afrikan intellectuals who joined the European academy largely beginning in the 1970s,
Clarke’s education and training were the product of a movement for the indigenization of Afrikan academic intellectualism in Harlem of the
1930s that can be traced back to the early nineteenth century. This is the first extensive critical examination of Clarke as an exemplar of
indigenous intellectualism in Afrikan culture in the United States.
In closing brothers abd sisters Dr. John Henrik Clarke perhaps is one of the Greatest African scholars of the 20th century it is in our best
interest to make sure our children is aware of the Grand Master Teacher. It has been said a people can't ever know where they are going if they
don't know where they have been. Well brothers and sisters Dr. John Henrik Clarke is a Great guide to discover where our people have been.
The National Black Young Men & Women of America job is to help guide where we are going. - NBTV Report.
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