Dr.. Gerald Horne

Autor prolífico, Horne has published on W. E. B. Du Bois and has written books on a wide range of neglected but by no means marginal or minor episodes of world history. He writes about topics he perceives as misrepresented struggles for justice, en particular, communist struggles and struggles against imperialism, colonialismo, fascism, racism and white supremacy. Individuals whose lives his work has highlighted in their historical contexts have included the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter John Howard Lawson, Ferdinand Smith (a Jamaican-born communist, marinero, líder sindical, and co-founder of the National Maritime Union), the perplexing Lawrence Dennis, un racista afroamericano fascista y que pasaba por blanco, y la feminista, anticolonialista, internationalist intellectual Shirley Graham Du Bois whose own career was overshadowed by that of her famous husband.

Mientras que muchos de los libros de Horne utilizan un célebre, individuo intrigante o políticamente comprometida como un prisma para inspeccionar las fuerzas históricas de su tiempo, Horne has also produced broad canvas chronicles of infrequently examined periods and aspects of the history of white supremacy and imperialism such as the post-civil war involvement of the US ruling class—newly dispossessed of human chattels—with slavery in Brazil, que no fue legalmente abolida hasta 1888, o los intentos de los imperialistas japoneses en el siglo de mid-20th aparezcan como los líderes de una guerra global contra la supremacía blanca, thus allies and instruments of “liberation” for people of color oppressed by “Anglo-American Empire”.

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