The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert

ISBN-13: 9780197578995 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 448 str.

Associate Profess John W.I. (Associate Professor of History

Recenzje

A revelatory read. John Lee's well-written, meticulously researched biography of the largely forgotten Black archaeologist, John Wesley Gilbert, shows that Gilbert, usually known for his trip as a missionary to the Congo under Belgian rule, was one of the most important figures of Greek archaeology in early-twentieth-century America. Lee shows us a more nuanced, transgressive Gilbert, whose mastery of the Greek language, archaeology, and classical education made him an American anomaly. Lee's biography excels most in its almost daily tracking of this fascinating New Negro, as he trips through Greece, the Congo, and the minefields of Jim Crow higher education in America. In the process, Lee creates a template for studying Black scholars in terms of the disciplines they mastered, not simply the disciplines that have come to dominate Black Studies.

O autorze

John W.I. Lee is Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His previous publications include A Greek Army on the March (Cambridge University Press) and The Persian Empire (The Great Courses/The Teaching Company).