| In February of 1986, at the invitation of the Black Student Union at
Los Angeles City College, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima delivered perhaps one of
the most brilliant lectures of his career. He essentially obliterated
the Columbus Myth and explained how Africa disintegrated under centuries
of onslaught from without. Trained as a linguist, historian, writer and anthropologist all wrapped into one, Dr. Van Sertima was uniquely qualified as a world renowned scholar who studied Africa and the African diaspora. His scholarship place him among the pantheon of the world most brilliant minds in his field. His most famous work is the international bestseller (They came before Columbus), and the journals of African civilization. He is a literary critic, a linguist, and anthropologist and has made a name in all three fields. Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 – 25 May 2009) was a Guyanese-born associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States. He was best known for his Olmec alternative origin speculations, a brand of pre-Columbian contact theory, which he proposed in his book “They Came Before Columbus” (1976). While his Olmec theory has "spread widely in African American community, both lay and scholarly", it was mostly ignored in Mesoamericanist scholarship, or else dismissed as Afrocentric pseudohistory to the effect of "robbing native American cultures". -- Tags: 911, F, FS Sertima, Ivan Van Sertima, Africa, Civilization, They Came Before Columbus, Literary Critic, Linguistics, Anthropology, Black Studies -- Produced: 2015, Episode: IVS-OCM Category: Education, 58:00 -- |
Phone your local public access TV station and ask them to broadcast this film to your local community. Your station can download the film in TV broadcast format from PEGMedia.org . This film is available for any Public Access TV station in the country - and world - to broadcast. Stations that use Telvue, DVDs or other media can contact 911TV1@gmail.com for instructions. -- This PEGMedia Episode - For Public Access TV Stations: http://www.pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/ep/22499/detail -- More 911TV Films On PEGMedia - For Public Access TV Stations: http://www.pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/showall/587/detail http://youtu.be/9GCIqFG6pb4 -- More 911TV Films On YouTube: http://youtube.com/911TVorg -- 911TV’s Blog http://Blog.911tv.org -- 911TV's Website http://www.911TV.org -- |
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Monday, April 13, 2015
Dr. Ivan Van Sertima 1986 “Obliterate the Columbus Myth”
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Leonard Shlain 1999 "The Alphabet vs. The Goddess"
| The Conflict between word and image
In his groundbreaking book of the same name, Leonard Shlain proposes that the process of learning alphabetic literacy rewired the human brain, with profound consequences for culture. Making remarkable connections across a wide range of subjects including brain function, anthropology, history, and religion, Shlain argues that literacy reinforced the brain's linear, abstract, predominantly masculine left hemisphere at the expense of the holistic, iconic feminine right one. This shift upset the balance between men and women initiating the disappearance of goddesses, the abhorrence of images, and, in literacy's early stages, the decline of women's political status. Patriarchy and misogyny followed. This is a paradigm shattering work that will transform your view of history and mind. One of the foremost concepts codifying the rise of the feminine in our time. -- Tags: 911, F, FS Leonard Shlain, FT The Alphabet vs The Goddess, Brain Function, Anthropology, History, Religion, -- Produced: 1999, Episode: 911TV - Alphabet vs Goddess Pt 1, 57:58, Category: Education -- View This Show On YouTube: https://youtu.be/QE6UGFeEbMU -- More 911TV Films On YouTube: http://youtube.com/911TVorg -- |
Phone your local public access TV station and ask them to broadcast this film to your local community. Your station can download the film in TV broadcast format from PEGMedia.org . This film is available for any Public Access TV station in the country - and world - to broadcast. Stations that use Telvue, DVDs or other media can contact 911TV1@gmail.com for instructions. -- This PEGMedia Episode - For Public Access TV Stations: http://www.pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/ep/15395/detail -- More 911TV Films On PEGMedia - For Public Access TV Stations: http://www.pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/showall/587/detail http://Blog.911tv.org -- 911TV's Website http://www.911TV.org -- |
Leonard Shlain 1999 "The Alphabet vs. The Goddess" Q&A
| Leonard Shlain 1999 "The Alphabet vs. The Goddess" - the Conflict between word and image - Q&A. In his groundbreaking book of the same name, Leonard Shlain proposes
that the process of learning alphabetic literacy rewired the human
brain, with profound consequences for culture. Making remarkable connections across a wide range of subjects including brain function, anthropology, history, and religion, Shlain argues that literacy reinforced the brain's linear, abstract, predominantly masculine left hemisphere at the expense of the holistic, iconic feminine right one. This shift upset the balance between men and women initiating the disappearance of goddesses, the abhorrence of images, and, in literacy's early stages, the decline of women's political status. Patriarchy and misogyny followed. This is a paradigm shattering work that will transform your view of history and mind. One of the foremost concepts codifying the rise of the feminine in our time. -- Tags: 911, F, FS Leonard Shlain, FT The Alphabet vs The Goddess, Brain Function, Anthropology, History, Religion, -- Produced: 1999, Episode: 911TV, 27:58, Category: Education -- View This Show On YouTube: https://youtu.be/pKS7RIrsi2A -- More 911TV Films On YouTube: http://youtube.com/911TVorg -- |
Phone your local public access TV station and ask them to broadcast this film to your local community. Your station can download the film in TV broadcast format from PEGMedia.org . This film is available for any Public Access TV station in the country - and world - to broadcast. Stations that use Telvue, DVDs or other media can contact 911TV1@gmail.com for instructions. -- This PEGMedia Episode - For Public Access TV Stations: http://www.pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/ep/15396/detail -- More 911TV Films On PEGMedia For Public Access TV Stations: http://www.pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/showall/587/detail http://Blog.911tv.org -- 911TV's Website http://www.911TV.org -- |
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