Sobre l'autor
Gerald Horne is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston. A prolific scholar, he has published more than three dozen books.
Obres de Gerald Horne
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America (2014) 243 exemplars
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North… (2017) 89 exemplars
The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long… (2020) 67 exemplars
Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (American History and Culture) (2005) 45 exemplars
Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic (2015) 35 exemplars
The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War (2007) 28 exemplars
The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States (2006) 26 exemplars
The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten (2006) 22 exemplars
Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation (2011) 20 exemplars
Black and Red: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 1944-1963 (1986) 17 exemplars
From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980 (2001) 17 exemplars
Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity (2018) 16 exemplars
Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Blobalization of the African American Freedom Struggle (2013) 15 exemplars
The Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas slavery & Jim Crow and the roots of American Fascism (2022) 13 exemplars
Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica (2005) 13 exemplars
Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies (2007) 12 exemplars
Fighting in Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaii (2011) 11 exemplars
The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox (2017) 11 exemplars
Powell V. Alabama: The Scottsboro Boys and American Justice (Historic Supreme Court Cases) (1997) 6 exemplars
White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to… (2019) 6 exemplars
The Bittersweet Science: racism, racketeering , and the political economy of boxing (2021) 3 exemplars
Studies in Black: Progressive Views and Reviews of the African-American Experience (1992) 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle (2009) — Col·laborador — 56 exemplars
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- Data de naixement
- 1949-01-03
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Goleta, California, USA
- Organitzacions
- Peace and Freedom Party
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The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and… de Gerald Horne
Okay so this was so dense it was so hard to understand for someone whos not a historian which is really unfortunate because this is such an important book for anyone who's been thru the american school system. It's a shame... Because the analysis was spot on, but it was just so hard to read! The last 2 chapters were the best & most important but I wish he talked more about the black loyalists actually during the revolutionary war, and also the aftermath of the war & how this affected them (and also the people who made it to nova scotia and stuff which is how I heard of this book in the first place)… (més)
Over/badly written, repetitive, full of passive voice obscuring who did what, and choked with ten-dollar words where ten-cent words (or no words) would be better. I like my adverbs, I’ll admit, but describing a provocative action as one that “stirred the pot irately” comes a lot closer to “colorless green ideas sleep furiously” than an author should get. The basic argument, which is that slavery and the resulting threat of slave rebellions were behind many of the key decisions that England and the American colonists made that ultimately led to the Revolution, seems sound: white Americans defended slavery as a means to get rich, while the English were less certain that it was worth the costs especially since they were also concerned with the Carribean and its bloodier revolts.… (més)
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A well-documented history of the Los Angeles Watts rebellion of the 1960s.
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- Obres
- 43
- També de
- 5
- Membres
- 1,036
- Popularitat
- #24,855
- Valoració
- 4.2
- Ressenyes
- 7
- ISBN
- 128
- Llengües
- 2
- Preferit
- 3