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Gerald Horne
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| Born | January 3, 1949 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Occupation | Professor, writer |
| Education | Princeton University (B.A.) Columbia University (Ph.D.) University of California, Berkeley (J.D.) |
| Subject | Social & cultural analysis of race and class; class and race history |
Gerald Horne (born January 3, 1949) is an American historian. He is a professor at the University of Houston, where he teaches History and African American Studies. He has written many books about important moments in history, especially focusing on struggles for justice and equality.
Early Life and Education
Gerald Horne grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He went to Princeton University for his first degree. Later, he earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He also studied law and received a J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor and Writer
Today, Gerald Horne is a respected professor at the University of Houston. He holds a special position called the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies.
He has written many books and articles. He often writes about parts of history that might not be well-known. He focuses on fights for fairness and against things like racism, colonialism (when one country takes over another), and imperialism (when a powerful country extends its influence).
Horne has written a lot about W. E. B. Du Bois, a famous African American writer and activist. He also explores how different groups of people, like African Americans and Japanese people, have connected throughout history. For example, he wrote about how Japan tried to gain support from people of color by saying it was fighting against white supremacy in the mid-20th century.
One of his goals is to show how people have struggled for justice. He often writes about individuals to help explain the bigger historical events around them. He has written about people like John Howard Lawson, a Hollywood writer who was unfairly banned from working. He also wrote about Ferdinand Smith, a sailor and labor leader from Jamaica, and Lawrence Dennis, who was linked to American fascism.
Why History Matters
Gerald Horne believes that understanding history is very important. He thinks that history often needs to be rewritten as new information comes out. He has talked about how some older history books about slavery and the time after the American Civil War were not accurate. They sometimes showed enslaved people as "happy" or described the period after slavery as a time of "misrule."
He points out that historians like W. E. B. Du Bois and Eric Foner helped correct these ideas with their own detailed research. Horne believes that many historical accounts, especially about certain political movements, have been biased. He works to provide a more balanced view of these events.
Works
- Black and Red: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War. SUNY Press (1986)
- Communist Front? The Civil Rights Congress, 1946–1956. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (1987)
- Black Liberation/Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party. University of Delaware Press (1994)
- Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising And The 1960s. Da Capo Press (1997)
- From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War against Zimbabwe, 1965–1980. University of North Carolina Press (2000)
- Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930–1950 : Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds and Trade Unionists. University of Texas Press (2001)
- Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois. New York University Press (2002)
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- Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920. New York University Press (2005)
- The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten. University of California Press (2006)
- Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies. Temple University Press (2007)
- The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War. University of Hawaii Press (2007)
- The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade. New York University Press (2007)
- Blows Against the Empire: U.S. Imperialism in Crisis. International Publishers (2008)
- Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica. New York University Press (2009)
- Mau Mau in Harlem?: The U.S. and the Liberation of Kenya. Palgrave MacMillan (2009)
- The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States. New York University Press (2009)
- W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography. Greenwood Press (2009)
- The End of Empires: African Americans and India. Temple University Press (2009)
- Fighting in Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaii. University of Hawaii Press (2011)
- Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation. New York University Press (2013)
- Black Revolutionary: William Patterson & the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle. University of Illinois Press (2013)
- The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America. New York University Press (2014)
- Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow. Monthly Review Press (2014)
- Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution and the Origins of the Dominican Republic. Monthly Review Press (2015)
- Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary. Pluto Press (2016)
- The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Albert Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox. University of Illinois Press (2017)
- Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early Struggle for the Right to Fly. Black Classic Press (2017)
- Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity. New York University Press (2018)
- The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. Monthly Review Press (2018)
- Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music. Monthly Review Press (2019)
- White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela. International Publishers (2019)
- The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century. Monthly Review Press (2020)
- The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering, and the Political Economy of Boxing. International Publishers (2020)
- The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism. International Publishers (2022)
- Armed Struggle? Panthers and Communists; Black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties and Seventies International Publishers (2024)
See also
- Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
- List of African-American United States Senate candidates
