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Tony Martin (born 1942), a historian, has been a Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College for over thirty years. He is considered by many to be the foremost scholar on the life of Marcus Garvey. He is the author of Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (Greenwood Press), The Pan-African Connection, Literary Garveyism (the last two from The Majority Press) and many other works (www.themajoritypress.com). He co-authored with Wendy Ball Rare Afro-Americana: A Reconstruction of the Adger Library (G.K. Hall and Co., now Macmillan) (www.tonymartin.net.tt). He is also a barrister-at-law from Gray's Inn, London (http://www.marquiswhoswho.net/tonymartin/). |
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⚫ | Dr. Martin is a prolific author of scholarly articles on many aspects of Black History and has lectured all over the world (http://www.marquiswhoswho.net/tonymartin/; http://www.tonymartin.net.tt). He has received awards and honors from the American Philosophical Society, the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations and many others. |
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⚫ | Martin published The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront (The Majority Press) in 1993. This was in response to attempts by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, American Jewish Committee, Wellesley Hillel (student arm of B'nai B'rith) and other Jewish organizations to have him fired from his tenured position at Wellesley College. The Jewish organizations were upset by his use of classroom materials pointing out that Jews had an important role (not a controlling role as they falsely asserted) in the Atlantic slave trade. |
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⚫ | The Jewish Onslaught placed the attacks against him in the context of Black-Jewish relations during the Civil Rights era and throughout history. Dr. Molefi Asante of Temple University called the book the best polemic by an African since the 1829 classic, David Walker's Appeal (Journal of Black Studies, XXV, 1, Sept. 1994.) Dr. Raymond Winbush of Vanderbilt University compared it to W.E.B. DuBois' Souls of Black Folk (The Voice of Black Studies, XVIII, 5, Winter 1994.) The Jewish scholar Steve Bloom wrote that "Martin shows that he has been the victim of a vicious slander campaign by those who use a Jewish identity demagogically...." (http://www.blacksandjews.com/TMartin_Broadsides.html#anchor243613). |
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The experts on the subject of the role of Jews in slavery agree: the role Jews played in Black slavery was significant. See, e.g., - Marc Lee Raphael (sometime editor of American Jewish History, published at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA), Jews and Judaism in the United States (1983), p. 14, where he states that "Jewish merchants frequently dominated" the slave trade "in all the American colonies". - Historical Research Department, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews (1991), which has gathered mostly Jewish sources on the role of Jewish participation in the slave trade.-Stanley Chyet, Lopez of Newport: Colonial American Merchant Prince (Wayne State Univ. Press, 1970), biography of the Jewish slave dealer who was one of America's biggest slave traders.-Encyclopedia Judaica (article on Brazil). [edit] |
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Bibliography - Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (The Majority Press, first published by Greenwood Press) • The Pan-African Connection(The Majority Press; first published by Schenkman Pub. Co.) • Literary Garveyism(The Majority Press) • Rare Afro-Americana: A Reconstruction of the Adger Library (G.K. Hall and Co.) - Co-authored with Wendy Ball • Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Wife No. 1, Or, A Tale of Two Amies (The Majority Press) |
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==Academic appointment and credentials== |
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Martin began his teaching career at the [[University of Michigan-Flint]], the Cipriani Labour College ([[Trinidad]]) and St. Mary's College (Trinidad). He began teaching at Wellesley in 1973, became [[tenure]]d in 1975, and became a full professor in 1979.<ref>http://www.themajoritypress.com/serv03.htm</ref> |
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• [2] Marquis Who's Who |
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• ([3]) Opposing digits |
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He is also a [[barrister-at-law]] from [[Gray's Inn]], London.<ref>http://www.marquiswhoswho.net/tonymartin/</ref> |
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• ([4]) Truth Institute |
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Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_%28professor%29" |
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⚫ | Dr. Martin is a prolific author of scholarly articles on many aspects of Black History and has lectured all over the world (http://www.marquiswhoswho.net/tonymartin/; http://www.tonymartin.net.tt). He has received awards and honors from the American Philosophical Society, the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations and many others. |
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Categories: Pages needing expert attention | 1942 births | Living people | American academics | American educators | American non-fiction writers | American historians |
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==Works== |
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He is considered by many to be the foremost scholar on the life of Marcus Garvey. He is the author of Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (Greenwood Press), The Pan-African Connection, Literary Garveyism (the last two from The Majority Press) and many other works (www.themajoritypress.com). He co-authored with Wendy Ball Rare Afro-Americana: A Reconstruction of the Adger Library (G.K. Hall and Co., now Macmillan) (www.tonymartin.net.tt). |
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===The Jewish Onslaught=== |
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The Jewish organizations were upset by his use of classroom materials stating that Jews had an important role (not a "controlling role" as they falsely asserted){{fact}} in the Atlantic slave trade. ''The Jewish Onslaught'' placed the attacks against him in the context of Black-Jewish relations during the [[Civil Rights]] era and throughout history. |
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Dr. [[Molefi Asante]] of [[Temple University]] called the book the best polemic by an African since the 1829 classic, David Walker's Appeal.<ref>''Journal of Black Studies'', XXV, 1, Sept. 1994.</ref> |
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Other black scholars have been less laudatory. [[Henry Louis Gates, Jr.]], Chair of the African and African American Studies Department and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at [[Harvard University]], was critical of Martin's work, leading Martin to describe him as "Brer Gates," and to call him <blockquote>"the most pristine example we have in the world today of a classic [[HNIC (disambiguation)|HNIC]]...Whenever the other folks have wanted anybody to beat the rest of the race over the head with, Brer Gates has been on the scene, like an HNIC machine. They gave him an unprecedented full page op-ed in the New York Times to attack the Nation of Islam's Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews. This op-ed was actually typeset in the shape of a Star of David. There is no evidence that Gates even read the book, but he pulled together some platitudes attacking it anyway."<ref>Martin, Tony. {{cite web|url=http://www.blacksandjews.com/T.Martin.HNIC.html|title="Henry Louis Gates- Head Nigger in Charge."|accessdate=2007-01-15}}</ref></blockquote> The majority of the Wellesley faculty signed a statement condemning Martin's work as "for its racial and ethnic stereotyping and for its anti-Semitism."<ref>Jacoby, Jeff. ''Boston Globe'' July 2, 2001. {{cite web|url=http://www.truthinstitute.org/Jacoby_globe.htm|title="Bigoted Man on Campus."|accessdate=2007-01-15}}</ref> |
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==1993 Blacks and Jews controversy== |
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Martin received national media attention in 1993 as a result of his inclusion of the 1991 [[Nation of Islam]] book ''The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews.'' in the course materials for his class on African-American History.<ref>Jacoby, Jeff. ''Boston Globe'' July 2, 2001. {{cite web|url=http://www.truthinstitute.org/Jacoby_globe.htm|title="Bigoted Man on Campus."|accessdate=2007-01-15}}</ref> In Martin's view, "In January 1993, I was minding my own business and teaching my Wellesley College survey course on African American History when a funny thing happened. The long arm of Jewish intolerance reached into my classroom. Unknown to me, three student officers of the Jewish Hillel organization (campus B'nai B'rith stablemates of the Anti-Defamation League), sat in on my class and remained for a single period only. Their purpose was to monitor my presentation."<ref>http://www.blacksandjews.com/Prof_Tony_Martin.html#anchor95530</ref> |
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Martin was criticized by the Chair of Africana Studies at Wellesley, Professor [[Selwyn Cudjoe]], and by the President of Wellesley College.<ref>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Black_student_groups.html</ref> |
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==Holocaust Revisionist conference appearance== |
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Tony Martin's work is claimed to be a new form of antisemitism which tries to blame Black slavery on Jews.{{fact}} He has taken part in [[Holocaust revisionism|Holocaust revisionist]] author [[David Irving]]'s Cincinnati "Real History Conference 2001", giving a lecture on "The Judaic Role in the Black Slave Trade"<ref>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3435039175602962781&q=tony+martin&hl=en</ref>. |
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Revision as of 21:59, 16 January 2007
Tony Martin (born 1942), a historian, has been a Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College for over thirty years. He is considered by many to be the foremost scholar on the life of Marcus Garvey. He is the author of Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (Greenwood Press), The Pan-African Connection, Literary Garveyism (the last two from The Majority Press) and many other works (www.themajoritypress.com). He co-authored with Wendy Ball Rare Afro-Americana: A Reconstruction of the Adger Library (G.K. Hall and Co., now Macmillan) (www.tonymartin.net.tt). He is also a barrister-at-law from Gray's Inn, London (http://www.marquiswhoswho.net/tonymartin/). Dr. Martin is a prolific author of scholarly articles on many aspects of Black History and has lectured all over the world (http://www.marquiswhoswho.net/tonymartin/; http://www.tonymartin.net.tt). He has received awards and honors from the American Philosophical Society, the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations and many others. Martin published The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront (The Majority Press) in 1993. This was in response to attempts by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, American Jewish Committee, Wellesley Hillel (student arm of B'nai B'rith) and other Jewish organizations to have him fired from his tenured position at Wellesley College. The Jewish organizations were upset by his use of classroom materials pointing out that Jews had an important role (not a controlling role as they falsely asserted) in the Atlantic slave trade. The Jewish Onslaught placed the attacks against him in the context of Black-Jewish relations during the Civil Rights era and throughout history. Dr. Molefi Asante of Temple University called the book the best polemic by an African since the 1829 classic, David Walker's Appeal (Journal of Black Studies, XXV, 1, Sept. 1994.) Dr. Raymond Winbush of Vanderbilt University compared it to W.E.B. DuBois' Souls of Black Folk (The Voice of Black Studies, XVIII, 5, Winter 1994.) The Jewish scholar Steve Bloom wrote that "Martin shows that he has been the victim of a vicious slander campaign by those who use a Jewish identity demagogically...." (http://www.blacksandjews.com/TMartin_Broadsides.html#anchor243613). The experts on the subject of the role of Jews in slavery agree: the role Jews played in Black slavery was significant. See, e.g., - Marc Lee Raphael (sometime editor of American Jewish History, published at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA), Jews and Judaism in the United States (1983), p. 14, where he states that "Jewish merchants frequently dominated" the slave trade "in all the American colonies". - Historical Research Department, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews (1991), which has gathered mostly Jewish sources on the role of Jewish participation in the slave trade.-Stanley Chyet, Lopez of Newport: Colonial American Merchant Prince (Wayne State Univ. Press, 1970), biography of the Jewish slave dealer who was one of America's biggest slave traders.-Encyclopedia Judaica (article on Brazil). [edit]
Bibliography - Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (The Majority Press, first published by Greenwood Press) • The Pan-African Connection(The Majority Press; first published by Schenkman Pub. Co.) • Literary Garveyism(The Majority Press) • Rare Afro-Americana: A Reconstruction of the Adger Library (G.K. Hall and Co.) - Co-authored with Wendy Ball • Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Wife No. 1, Or, A Tale of Two Amies (The Majority Press)
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• ([1]) Tony Martin's personal website (http://www.tonymartin.net.tt) • [2] Marquis Who's Who • ([3]) Opposing digits • ([4]) Truth Institute Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_%28professor%29" Categories: Pages needing expert attention | 1942 births | Living people | American academics | American educators | American non-fiction writers | American historians