A Hubert Harrison Reader

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Wesleyan University Press, 29/03/2021 - 505 páginas

Critical writings by the "father of Harlem radicalism".

The brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and activist Hubert Harrison (1883–1927) is one of the truly important, yet neglected, figures of early twentieth-century America. Known as "the father of Harlem radicalism,' and a leading Socialist party speaker who advocated that socialists champion the cause of the Negro as a revolutionary doctrine, Harrison had an important influence on a generation of race and class radicals, including Marcus Garvey and A. Philip Randolph.

Harrison envisioned a socialism that had special appeal to African-Americans, and he affirmed the duty of socialists to oppose race-based oppression. Despite high praise from his contemporaries, Harrison's legacy has largely been neglected. This reader redresses the imbalance; Harrison's essays, editorials, reviews, letters, and diary entries offer a profound, and often unique, analysis of issues, events and individuals of early twentieth-century America. His writings also provide critical insights and counterpoints to the thinking of W. E. B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey.

The reader is organized thematically to highlight Harrison's contributions to the debates on race, class, culture, and politics of his time. The writings span Harrison's career and the evolution of his thought, and include extensive political writings, editorials, meditations, reviews of theater and poetry, and deeply evocative social commentary.

 

Índice

Introduction
1
1 A Developing Worldview and Beginning Social Activism
31
2 Class Radicalism
51
3 Race Radicalism
85
4 Education
119
5 Politics
129
6 Leaders and Leadership
163
7 Antiimperialism and Internationalism
201
10 Literary Criticism Book Reviews and Book Reviewing
291
11 Theater Reviews
369
12 Poets and Poetry
389
13 The International Colored Unity League and the Way Forward
397
Biographical Sources on Harrison
407
Notes
411
Index of Titles
453
General Index
457

8 Meditations
257
9 Lynching the Klan Race Relations and Democracy in America
265

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Jeffrey B. Perry is an independent scholar and author of the first critical biography of Harrison.

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