'Heresy in the University: The "Black Athena" Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals'

Enter the heretic, Martin Bernal. The leading player in Jacques Berlinerblau's Heresy in the University: The "Black Athena" Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals (Rutgers University Press; 288 pages; $50 hardcover, $20 paperback), he is a man with an infinite capacity to anger fellow academics.

In 1986, Mr. Bernal, a safely tenured Sinologist at

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