Ivan van Sertima
Historian, Author
1935 – 2009
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Who was Ivan van Sertima?
Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima was a Guyanese-born associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States.
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. While his Olmec theory has "spread widely in African American community, both lay and scholarly", it was mostly ignored in Mesoamericanist scholarship, or else dismissed as Afrocentric pseudohistory to the effect of "robbing native American cultures".
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- Born
- Jan 26, 1935
British Guiana - Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- United Kingdom
- Guyana
- Profession
- Education
- University of London
- Rutgers University
- SOAS, University of London
- Lived in
- New Brunswick
- Died
- May 25, 2009
New Brunswick
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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