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Selected Books About JHC
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Dr. John Henrik Clarke : His Life, His Words, His Works by Call Number: Africana Library PS3505.L38 Z55x 2003A book on the life, accomplishments and teachings of Dr. John Henrik Clarke, a noted scholar, educator, author and lecturer, attributed by many to be the father of African and African Studies in the US school systems. He is widely known as a man who dedicated his life to discovering and spreading the truth of African history and its promise for its people's future. -
First Word: Black Scholars, Thinkers, Warriors: Knowledge, Widson, Mental Liberation. by
Call Number: Africana Library CB235 .F57x 1996Essays by 13 of the most influential black thinkers who had an impact on Africana Studies during the 20th century. These essays reflect wisdom, wit, joy, and frustration as they speak candidly on issues of education, relationships, the origin of civilization, human rights, and a host of other topics. John Henrik Clarke provides insight on what motivated him to study African history among other things. -
John Henrik Clarke and the Power of History: Africalogical Quest for Decolonization and Sovereignty by
Call Number: Africana Library E175.5.C59 T68 2009This study explores Clarke's development and conceptualisation of Afrikan World History and its role as a foundation and grounding for liberation, which he defined not simply as freedom from European domination. More fundamentally, Clarke understood liberation as the restoration of African sovereignty. -
Pan African Nationalism in the Americas: The Life and Times of John Henrik Clarke by Call Number: Africana Library E175.5.C59 P36 2004This volume is a compilation of unpublished critical essays solicited from selected scholars and a number of previously published articles of Clarke. The subject categories are in the areas of: critical essays, Black Nationalism, Africana thought and biography, Africana historiography, narratives, and global Pan Africanist political thought. -
Reflections on the Life of John Henrik Clarke: January 1, 1915 to July 16, 1998. by Call Number: Olin Library LA2317.C59 C76 1998In this pamphlet, Larry Crowe comments on the important role that John Henrik Clarke played in the teaching/documenting the contributions made by people of African decent. -
Still Speaking: An Intellectual History of John Henrik Clarke by Call Number: Africana Library Thesis DT3.5 2001 B357This is an Africana (Cornell University) graduate thesis written by Jared Ball. In the abstract Ball writes: "John Henrik Clarke would be introduced to, use and later teach a tradition of African-centered activist/scholarship whose immediate purpose was the restoration of a world history made all but obsolete under the weight of Eurocentric historiography."
