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Gerald Horne

Also known as: Gerald HORNE, Gerald C. Horne

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Gerald Charles Horne III (born January 3, 1949) is an American historian, author and attorney who holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. In 2022, Horne was awarded the American Book Award for his book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism and Capitalism in the Long 16th Century, which was published by Monthly Review Press in 2020. Horne was also awarded the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023.

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The Muslim armies that invaded and occupied Spain and Portugal beginning in 711 included the precursors of African Americans—soldiers from sub-Saharan Africa.

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Paul Robeson

1992

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A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling of social justice led him to abandon the theater and Hollywood to become one of the most important political activists of his generation. Gerald Horne's biography uses Robeson's remarkable and revolutionary life to tell the story of the 20th century's great political struggles: against racism, against colonialism, and for international socialism. -- from back cover.

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The end of empires

2008

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"Martin Luther King Jr.'s adaptation of Gandhi's doctrine of nonviolent resistance is the most visible example of the rich history of ties between African Americans and India. In The End of Empires, Gerald Horne provides an unprecedented history of the relationship between African Americans and Indians in the period leading up to Indian independence in 1947. Recognizing their common history of exploitation, Horne writes, African Americans and Indians interacted frequently and eventually created alliances, which were advocated by W.E.B. Du Bois, among other leaders. Horne tells the fascinating story of these exchanges, including the South Asian influence on the Nation of Islam and the close friendship between Paul Robeson and India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Based on extensive archival research in India, the United States and the United Kingdom, The End of Empires breaks new ground in the effort to put African American history into a global context."--Jacket.

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Citizen of the World

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Proud Valley, a sailor comes to a Welsh coal mining town and helps re-open the mine at the cost of his life. Native Land, a documentary formed from staged reenactments, leads viewers on an emotional tour of the U.S. and its freedom based ideologies (just prior to World War II) and looks at the the forces threatening to undermine its strengths from within: greedy capitalists, professional strikebreakers, and the Ku Klux Kan.

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