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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 teaches History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He holds a special teaching position there called the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair.
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About Gerald Horne
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 got a law degree (J.D.) from the University of California, Berkeley.
His Work as a Professor
Professor Horne teaches at the University of Houston. He focuses on history and the study of African American culture and experiences. He also used to be an editor for a magazine called Political Affairs.
His Political Involvement
In 1992, Gerald Horne ran for a seat in the United States Senate. He was a candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party.
What Gerald Horne Writes About
Gerald Horne is a very active writer. He has written many books about different parts of history. He often writes about topics he feels are misunderstood.
Exploring History's Hidden Stories
He has written a lot about W. E. B. Du Bois, who was an important civil rights leader and writer. Horne also writes about parts of world history that people don't always know much about, like the history of Hawaii and the Pacific islands.
He focuses on stories of people fighting for fairness and justice. These struggles include those against imperialism (when one country controls another), colonialism (when a country takes over and settles another land), fascism (a type of strict government), racism (unfair treatment based on race), and white supremacy (the belief that white people are better than others). Horne believes in Marxism, which is a way of looking at society, economics, and politics.
Stories of Individuals and Big Events
Many of his books look at history through the lives of specific people. For example, he wrote about John Howard Lawson, a Hollywood writer who was "blacklisted" (meaning he was not allowed to work). He also wrote about Ferdinand Smith, a sailor and labor leader from Jamaica, and Lawrence Dennis, who was involved in American fascism.
Horne also writes about bigger historical events. For instance, he explored how wealthy Americans, after slavery ended in the U.S., became involved in slavery in Brazil. Slavery was legal in Brazil until 1888. He has also written about the connections between African Americans and Japanese people in the mid-1900s. He looked at how Japan tried to gain support from people of color by saying they were fighting against white supremacy.
Historian Manning Marable once said that Gerald Horne is "one of the most gifted and insightful historians on racial matters of his generation."
Gerald Horne's Views on History
Gerald Horne believes that history needs to be rewritten by each new generation. He thinks that older histories can sometimes be biased or incomplete.
He has talked about how the history of the Communist movement in the U.S. needs to be looked at again. He feels that much of what has been written about it before was unfair and against communism. He believes that new historical records can help people understand this part of history better.
Since 2013, Professor Horne has shared his ideas about history, society, and politics in talks with Paul Jay.
Books by Gerald Horne
- 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)
- Revolting Capital: Racism & Radicalism in Washington D.C., 1900-2000 International Publishers (2023)
- Armed Struggle? Panthers and Communists; Black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties and Seventies International Publishers (2024)
- The Capital of Slavery: Washington, D.C. 1800-1865 International Publishers (2025)
See Also
- Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
- List of African-American United States Senate candidates
