Pan-Africanism in the Academia : John Henrik Clarke and the African Heritage Studies Association
Bibliographic record
Abstract
At the 1969 African Studies Association meeting in Montreal, a group of Black intellectuals, challenged the « neocolonial functioning » of the organization and pressed for greater Black representation within its leadership. The conflict gave rise to the African Heritage Studies Association, which, under the leadership of John Henrik Clarke, organized meetings as well as transnational networks of Black studies scholars. For many contemporary historians, the 1969 founding of AHSA represents the first manifesto of « Afrocentrism » within North American academic circles. It is thought of as a first attempt to consciously « racialize » social sciences and to claim for the reconstruction of African history along what John Henrik Clarke already called « afrocentric » lines. Based on an ongoing research on African American academic activism, this paper will argue that beyond « Afrocentrism », what the members of AHSA were trying to create was a Pan-African organization grounded in politics and anticolonial struggle. In their view, the rewriting of African history was a first step toward a broader revolution that could affect power relations in the United States and build a united Pan-African community.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".