Martin Bernal

Martin Gardiner Bernal (/bərˈnɑːl/; 10 March 1937^[1] – 9 June 2013^[2]) was a British scholar of modern Chinese political history. He was a Professor of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. He is best known for his work Black Athena, a controversial^[3]^[4] work which argues that the culture, language, and political structure of Ancient Greece contained substantial influences from Egypt and Syria-Palestine.

^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Margaret Gardiner
^ "Professor Martin Bernal, 'Black Athena' author, dies at 76", Cornell Chronicle, Cornell University, retrieved 15 June 2012
^ Mary R. Lefkowitz, Black Athena Revisited, The University of North Carolina Press, 1996, on Google books
^ Jacques Berlinerblau, Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals, Rutgers University Press, 1999.

[1] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Margaret Gardiner

[Cornell_Chron-2] "Professor Martin Bernal, 'Black Athena' author, dies at 76", Cornell Chronicle, Cornell University, retrieved 15 June 2012

[3] Mary R. Lefkowitz, Black Athena Revisited, The University of North Carolina Press, 1996, on Google books

[4] Jacques Berlinerblau, Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals, Rutgers University Press, 1999.

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