pre-Columbian contact between Africa and the Americas
Spouses
Maria Nagy (m. 1964; divorced)
Jacqueline L. Patten
(m. 1984)
Scientific career
Fields
Africana Studies
Institutions
Rutgers University
Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 – 25 May 2009) was a Guyanese-born British associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States.[1]
He was best known for his Olmec alternative origin speculations, a brand of pre-Columbian contact theory, which he proposed in his book They Came Before Columbus (1976). While his Olmec theory has "spread widely in African American community, both lay and scholarly", it was mostly ignored in Mesoamericanist scholarship, and has been dismissed as Afrocentric pseudoarchaeology[2] and pseudohistory to the effect of "robbing native American cultures."[n 1]
^"Ivan van Sertima". Rutgers African-American Alumni Hall of Fame Inductees. 2004.
^Card, Jeb J.; Anderson, David S. (2016). Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices. University of Alabama Press. pp. 73, 75, 76, 79. ISBN 9780817319113. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
^Fritze, Ronald (1994). "Goodbye Columbus? The Pseudohistory of Who Discovered America". Skeptic. 2 (4): 88–97. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
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Ivan Gladstone VanSertima (26 January 1935 – 25 May 2009) was a Guyanese-born British associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in...
is primarily associated with Cheikh Anta Diop, John Henrik Clarke, IvanvanSertima and Molefi Kete Asante. Asante, however, describes his theories as...
including The African Presence in Early Asia (1985, 1988, 1995), with IvanVanSertima, Black Star: The African Presence in Early Europe (2012) and African...
justify given the full corpus of representation in Olmec carving. IvanVanSertima claimed that the seven braids on the Tres Zapotes head was an Ethiopian...
الإسلامي (in Arabic) (2nd ed.). Beirut: دار الطليعة. ISBN 978-9953410876. IvanVanSertima (1992). Golden Age of the Moor. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1412815369...
the Mediterranean Sea. Introduced around 1970, it was popularized by IvanVanSertima in the 1980s and saw wide use in Afrocentric publications during the...
African Experimental Aeronautics: A 2000-Year Old Model Glider". In IvanvanSertima (ed.). Blacks in Science: Ancient and Modern. Journal of African Civilizations...
opposite direction. IvanvanSertima and Malian researcher Gaoussou Diawara proposed that the voyage reached the New World. VanSertima cites the abstract...
in the early 20th century by Leo Wiener and others. Afro-centrist IvanVanSertima identified the Olmecs with the Mandé people of West Africa. Some researchers...
work of Alfonso Medellín Zenil and in the 1970s in the writings of IvanvanSertima. Such speculation is not taken seriously by Mesoamerican scholars such...
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home, including Brock Peters, Jim Kelly, Eartha Kitt, Alex Haley, IvanvanSertima, Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Ture), and many others from the entertainment...
Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America (1976) by IvanVanSertima Some Afrocentric writers focused on study of indigenous African civilizations...
in Antiquity: A Review,” in African Presence in Early Europe, ed. IvanVanSertima, Transaction, 1985, 2000. “Waset, the Eye of Ra and the Abode of Maat:...
commentator on forced migration and refugees, Than Tun, historian of Burma, IvanvanSertima, historian and anthropologist, Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera, contemporary...
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Aubrey Williams, Orlando Patterson, Kenneth Ramchand, Gordon Rohlehr, IvanvanSertima, Louis James, James Berry, Errol Lloyd and Doris Brathwaite. Brian...
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1987-08-03 Bala Usman Academic, politician and historian 1945 2005-09-24 IvanVanSertima Associate professor of Africana Studies 1935-01-26 2009-05-25 Jan Vansina...
Henrik Clarke, Dr. Marimba Ani, Dr. Richard King, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Dr. IvanVanSertima, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Dr. Amos Wilson, Professor George Simmons...
which featured Cheikh Anta Diop as the primary speaker, along with IvanVanSertima, and Carlos Moore. This led to Diop being brought to the US, being...
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