Dr. Gerald Horne

Un auteur prolifique, 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 particulier, communist struggles and struggles against imperialism, colonialisme, 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, marin, dirigeant syndical, and co-founder of the National Maritime Union), the perplexing Lawrence Dennis, un raciste américain fasciste et qui passait pour le blanc, et la féministe, anti-colonialiste, internationalist intellectual Shirley Graham Du Bois whose own career was overshadowed by that of her famous husband.

Alors que beaucoup de livres de Horne utilise un célèbre, personne intrigante ou politiquement engagé comme un prisme à inspecter les forces historiques de leur temps, 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, qui n'a pas été légalement aboli jusqu'à 1888, ou les tentatives impérialistes japonais dans le milieu du 20ème siècle apparaissent comme les leaders d'une guerre mondiale contre la suprématie blanche, thus allies and instruments of “liberation” for people of color oppressed by “Anglo-American Empire”.

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