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The Final Victim of the Blacklist
University of California Press 2006; US$ 15.95Before he attained notoriety as Dean of the Hollywood Ten?the blacklisted screenwriters and directors persecuted because of their varying ties to the Communist Party?John Howard Lawson had become one of the most brilliant, successful, and intellectual screenwriters on the Hollywood scene in the 1930s and 1940s, with several hits to his credit including... more...
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 35.00This biography of W.E.B. Du Bois gives full measure to his entire life, including his controversial final decades. more...
Mau Mau in Harlem?
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 90.00Based on archival research on three continents, this book addresses the interpenetration of two closely related movements: the struggle against white supremacy and Jim Crow in the U.S., and the struggle against similar forces and for national liberation in Colonial Kenya. more...
The Deepest South
NYU Press 2007; US$ 79.00During its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the United States and Brazil. The Deepest South tells the disturbing story of how U.S. nationals - before and after Emancipation -- continued to actively participate in this odious commerce by creating diplomatic, social, and political ties... more...
The Color of Fascism
NYU Press 2006; US$ 45.00What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis—arguably the “brains” behind U.S. fascism—was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white? Born in Atlanta in 1893, Dennis began life as a highly touted African American child preacher, touring nationally and arousing audiences with his dark-skinned mother as his escort.... more...
Race Woman
NYU Press 2000; US$ 70.00One of the most intriguing activists and artists of the twentieth century, Shirley Graham Du Bois also remains one of the least studied and understood. In Race Woman , Gerald Horne draws a revealing portrait of this controvertial figure who championed the civil rights movement in America, the liberation struggles in Africa and the socialist struggles... more...
Red Seas
NYU Press 2005; US$ 65.00During the heyday of the U.S. and international labor movements in the 1930s and 1940s, Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born co-founder and second-in-command of the National Maritime Union (NMU), stands out as one of the most—if not the most—powerful black labor leaders in the United States. Smiths active membership in the Communist... more...
Race War!
NYU Press 2003; US$ 65.00Japan’s lightning march across Asia during World War II was swift and brutal. Nation after nation fell to Japanese soldiers. How were the Japanese able to justify their occupation of so many Asian nations? And how did they find supporters in countries they subdued and exploited? Race War! delves into submerged and forgotten history to reveal... more...
Negro Comrades of the Crown
NYU Press 2012; US$ 39.00While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horne reveals in his latest work of historical recovery that after 1776, Africans and African-Americans continued to collaborate with Great Britain against the United States in battles big and small until the... more...
Cold War in a Hot Zone
Temple University Press 2008; US$ 28.95Focused on the region as a whole and drawing from archives in Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Guyana, St. Kitts, Antigua, the U.S. and U.K., this book details the region's impact on the U.S. (particularly on Jim Crow), as it charts the British Empire's retreat in the face of a challenge from Washington. more...









