Joseph antenor firmin biography of williams

Routledge Press included another essay by Williams on Firmin in May He is deservingly recognized as the first anthropologist and probably Egyptologist of African descent in the diasporan world of the late nineteenth century.

Joseph Auguste Anténor Firmin (18 October – 19 September ), better known as Anténor Firmin, was a Haitian barrister and philosopher, pioneering anthropologist, journalist, and politician.

Fortunately for all of humanity, Firmin courageously raised his herculean Haitian literary voice to challenge and meticulously dismantle the dangerous pillars of the race myth and race propaganda. Additionally, it is both important and extremely necessary that we directly link and connect Firmin to his intellectual ancestors and antecedents who were also forcefully enslaved and exiled in the diaspora.

Delaney and Robert Campbell. Firmin, like those intellectual champions that preceded him, challenged the dominant mainstream historical narrative and boldly redefined who and what it means to be an African person whether one is born in Haiti, America, Brazil, South Africa, Ghana, or Ethiopia. We are all children of the motherland, children of the cradle of humanity and primordial civilizations.