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Gerald Horne
A sweeping history which should be understood and studied by all anti-imperialist and progressive forces.
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Original jelly roll blues – What did I do to be so black and blue? – One o'clock jump – Hothouse – We speak African! – Lullabye of birdland –…
I Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Readeris a timely and essential collection of the many works of Professor Gerald Horne-a historian who has made an indelible impact on the study…
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Claudia Jones
Internationalism in Practice is a timely exploration of Claudia Jones' tireless advocacy for international, anti-imperialist, and anti-war solidarity during the pivotal, tumultuous years of the early 1950s. This new scholarly…
Provides a fresh perspective on twentieth-century struggles for racial justice.
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Chronicles how American culture - deeply rooted in white supremacy, slavery and capitalism - finds its origin story in the 17th century European colonization of Africa and North America, exposing…
The Mexican Revolution impacted both Mexican and African Americans. Drawing on archives on both sides of the border, a host of cutting- edge studies and oral histories, Horne chronicles the…
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During its heyday in the 19th century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the US and Brazil. This work tells the story of how US…
A comprehensive account of America’s involvement in the war against Zimbabwe, which occurred after Smith’s Rhodesian government made a unilateral declaration of independence and broke with Britain in 1965. Smith…
Based upon exhaustive research, this is the most comprehensive account to date of the entangled histories of apartheid and Jim Crow that culminated in 1994 with the election of Nelson…
Black Liberation/Red Scare is a study of an African American Communist leader,
Ben Davis, Jr. (1904-64). Though it examines the numerous grassroots campaigns
that he was involved in, it is…
The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. The author show that in the prelude to…
A new look at a well-covered piece of history, the book looks at how racism shaped WW2.
Gerald Horne draws on the life of Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born co-founder and second-in-command of the National Maritime Union (NMU), to make connections between labor radicalism and the Civil Rights…
What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis - arguably the brains behind US fascism - was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white? Based on archival…
Reveals a novel thesis concerning slave resistence and the roots of abolitionism
The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution,historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship…
This biography of W.E.B. Du Bois gives full measure to his entire life, including his controversial final decades.
Rewrites the history of slave resistance by placing it for the first time in the context of military and diplomatic wrangling between Britain and the United States.
Powerful labour movements played a critical role in shaping modern Hawaii. Based on exhaustive archival research in Hawaii, California, Washington, and elsewhere, Gerald Horne’s gripping story of Hawaii workers’ struggle…
For more than fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett…
Communist Front? The Civil Rights Congress, 1946-1956 provides an essential analysis of one of the most important but understudied organizations of the twentieth century. This pivotal formation tirelessly advocated for…
Based upon exhaustive research in court records, memoirs, the files of the New York State Athletic Commission and related bodies from Nevada to New Jersey - not to mention the…
Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted as the US Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these markets, which required an increase in labor. In the…
The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II
In November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of African Americans engaged in military drills…
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A fascinating account of the extraordinary life of W. E. B. Du Bois’s widow: a complex, creative woman who lived a colorful, meaningful life. (Essence) Horne is the first biographer…
Reveals the experiences of black sailors and their contribution to the struggle for labour and civil rights, the history of the Communist Party and its black members, and the significant…
Here, Gerald Horne argues forcefully that, in order to understand the arrival of colonists from the British Isles in the early seventeenth century, one must first understand the long sixteenth…
Blends biography, social history, and critical race theory to illuminate the fascinating life of Lawrence Dennis, a complex and enigmatic man
"One lesson from Texas history is that repression was so severe because resistance was so daunting-a lesson to keep in mind as this century unfolds"--
This engrossing book probes the motives and actions of all the players to reveal the full story of the Conference of Studio Unions strike and the resulting lockout of 1946.
Based on hundreds of oral histories and archival research, this account of the Watts Uprising of 1965, which changed the face of racial justice in America, studies its causes and…
John Howard Lawson was one of the most brilliant, successful, and intellectual screenwriters on the Hollywood scene in the 1930s and 1940s. This biography of Lawson features many of his…
Gerald Horne (University of Houston)
The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers–France, Great Britain, and Spain–suffered…
A biography of one of the most important political activists of a generation
