Dr. John Henrik Clarke s African People in World History inaugurates the Black Classic Press Contemporary Lecture Series. This series is devoted to the publication of views expressed by leading contemporary thinkers and essayists. Dr. Clarke qualifies as both. He is Professor Emeritus of African World History at Hunter College. As a historian, educator, and author, he has dedicated his life to uncovering the identity and place of African peopl...
Clarke, associate editor of Freedomways Magazine, has assembled a talented and varied group of black intellectuals.... Because this book is angry and because it is so counter to the critical acclaim that met Styron's novel, there is an obvious temptation to cry black racism. But to dismiss [it] out of hand would constitute the rankest sophistry. This is an important book, it deserves a full hearing."-Saturday Review
First published in 1974, and edited by John Henrik Clarke with the aid of Amy Jacques Garvey, this is a superbly edited collection of writings reflecting the life and work of Marcus Garvey. Included are essays by Garvey scholars, contemporaries and critics including Robert Hill, Rupert Lewis, and W.E.B DuBois.
Opening with an extensive Introduction by Clarke, the book is presented in seven parts, primarily delineated by the major phases of Ga...
The success of John Henrik Clarke's "American Negro Short Stories, "first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories included in the original--from Charles W. Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar in the late nineteenth century to the rich and productive work of the Harlem Renaissance: writers like Zora Neale H...