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New York University Press 1 views
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0814736734, 081473667X
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Gerald Horne

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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Drawing on archives on both sides of the border, the author chronicles the political currents which created and then undermined the Mexican border as a relative safe haven for African Americans.

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