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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 structural origins of American "looting"Virtually no part of the modern United States-the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutions, sports, literature, economics, even protest movements-can be understood without first underst...

The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean.

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 were eagerly awaiting a Japanese invasion of the U.S.- an invasion that they planned to join. Since the rise of Japan as a superpower less than a century earlier, African Americans across class and ideological lines had saluted the Asian nation, not least ...

The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African-American women shaped the U.S. effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this story and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African-Americans to gain the right to fly. This struggle involved pioneers like Bessie Coleman, who traveled to World War I era Paris in order to gain ...

This biography of W.E.B. Du Bois gives full measure to his entire life, including his controversial final decades.

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One of the most intriguing activists and artists of the 20th century, Shirley Graham Du Bois also remains one of the least studied and understood. In Race Woman, Gerald Horne provides the first biography of this dynamic woman, celebrated and reviled for her political activities by figures ranging from Kwame Nkrumah and Malcolm X to Maya Angelou.A woman of many talents, Graham Du Bois was a controversial figure who at various times championed t...

Gerald Horne is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History at the University of Houston. His many books include Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation.

Gerald Horne is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History at the University of Houston. His many books include Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation.

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.

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Powerful labor movements played a critical role in shaping modern Hawaii, beginning in the 1930s, when International Longshore and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) representatives were dispatched to the islands to organize plantation and dock laborers. They were stunned by the feudal conditions they found in Hawaii, where the majority of workers--Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino in origin--were routinely subjected to repression and racism ...

Delves into forgotten history to reveal how European racism and colonialism were deftly exploited by the Japanese to create allies among formerly colonized people of color.

Powerful labor movements played a critical role in shaping modern Hawaii, beginning in the 1930s, when International Longshore and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) representatives were dispatched to the islands to organize plantation and dock laborers. They were stunned by the feudal conditions they found in Hawaii, where the majority of workers--Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino in origin--were routinely subjected to repression and racism ...

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 rush to fill the vacuum, freebooters and others began a slave trade in Melanesians and Polynesians. This book reconstructs the history of slave trading in the region.

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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 between the two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked interconnections among slavery, Jim Crow, and revolution. Slavery was central to the economic and political trajectories of Cuba and the United States, both in terms of each nation's internal ...