Patrice Rankine Lecture

"Black Athena and Myths of African Diaspora Identity in Latin America and Brazil" - Dr. Rankine discusses how communities in Latin America and Brazil have responded through their own myths of identity to Professor Bernal's arguments for an African origin of Greek civilization. "Black Athena" is Cornell professor Martin Bernal's controversial argument for the possible African and Near Eastern origins of Classical Greek civilization.

Patrice D. Rankine earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1998 in Classical Languages and Literatures. He is currently Director of Purdues Interdisciplinary Program in Classics, and Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Professor Rankine is particularly interested in the relationship between the Classics and African American Studies, classical genres of epic, tragedy and lyric poetry and how they influence black literature.

This lecture was made possible by the generous support of the Gustavus Lecture Series and the following Gustavus Departments- Classics Department, Diversity Center, English Department, LALACS, Modern Languages Department, and the Sociology-Anthropology Department

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