Tony Martin (professor)

Claude Anthony "Tony" Martin ( born February 21, 1942 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; † January 17, 2013 in Trinidad and Tobago ) was a history professor at Wellesley College, through its support of theses on a prominent role of Jews in the slave trade was at the center of much controversy in the U.S. and England.

Life and work

Martin had Caribbean roots, studied law and was admitted from 1965 in London at the Gray 's Inn as a lawyer and in 1968 in Trinidad. He then studied economics at the University of Hull in addition (Bachelor 1968) and History at Michigan State University, where he in 1970 made ​​his master's degree and doctorate in 1973. 1971 to 1973 he was an assistant professor of Afro -American Studies at the University of Michigan in Flint and then at Wellesley College, where he became Associate Professor in 1975 and Professor in 1979. In 2007 he became Professor Emeritus. He was also a visiting professor in the University of Minnesota at Colorado College, Brown University, Brandeis University and a lecturer and visiting scholars such as in Trinidad ( Cipriani 's Labour College, St. Mary's College ) and Ghana. He was co-editor of the Journal of Black Studies and the Journal of African American History, as well as, inter alia, 1988-1990 Director of the Supervisory Board of the Caribbean Cultural Center in New York City.

His specialty was the movement of Marcus Garvey. Attention was Martin in 1993 for his book The Jewish Onslaught, in which he sought a dominant role of Jews not only in the transatlantic slave trade, but before that already occupy over several centuries in the slave trade in Europe and Africa and the attacks especially from Jewish circles in USA continued to resist. He also went to the history of Jewish- African American relations in the United States and on the negative in his view image of African-American intellectuals of the civil rights movement in " Jewish " media. Martin had already been similarly expressed in his lectures on the role of Jews in the slave trade and a controversial book on the subject of the Nation of Islam ( The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, 1991), was accused of anti-Semitism, used in his courses. He was then attacked violently. The Rector of the Wellesley College Diana Chapman Walsh distanced himself shortly after release officially of Martin's book, and his faculty supervisor Selwyn Cudjoe and a public resolution of many of his colleagues even called it anti-Semitic. The American Historical Association distanced itself from any attempts to allocate a disproportionate share of the slave trade Jews. In African-American intellectual circles, he received support it. As the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone Martin in 2003 by a planned lecture auslud again because of the allegations against his book, Livingstone came under massive " attack " the London Black organizations. Martin also gave a talk on an organized in Cincinnati from historical revisionists and Holocaust denier David Irving 2001 conference.

Martin was a U.S. citizen.

Works

  • Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1976, Dover, The Majority Press 421 pages, ISBN 0-912469-23-4
  • The Writing and Reception of Race First: Marcus Garvey and the Battle for Black History, Dover, The Majority Press, 1978
  • Marcus Garvey Hero: A First Biography, 1983, Dover, The Majority Press, ISBN 978-0-912469-05-8
  • African Fundamentalism: A Literary and Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance, ISBN 978-0-912469-09-6
  • Literary Garveyism: Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem, 1983, Dover, The Majority Press, ISBN 978-0-912469-01-0
  • Amy Ashwood Garvey, Pan - Africanist, Feminist and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1, Or, A Tale of Two Amies
  • The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey ( compilation and editing)
  • The Pan - African Connection: From Slavery to Garvey and Beyond, ISBN 978-0-912469-11-9
  • In Nobody's Backyard: The Grenada Revolution in Its Own Words, edited by Tony Martin and Dessima Williams, 2 vols, 1984, Dover, Massachusetts, The Majority Press.
  • The Jewish Onslaught: Dispatches from the Wellesley Battlefront, 1993, Dover, The Majority Press, ISBN 978-0-912469-30-0
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