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Abena Asare is Associate Professor of Modern African Affairs at Stony Brook University. She is author of Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana and When Will the Joy Come: Black Women in the Ivory Tower. She is currently working on From Eastern Long Island to the World, an archival and book project about the history of Black Studies at Stony Brook University.
Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued.
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