Hubert Harrison The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918

Name: Hubert Harrison The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918
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ISBN: 9780231139113

ISBN-10: 023113911X

ISBN-13: 9780231139113

Edition: 2019

Authors: Jeffrey B. Perry

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Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political radicalism. Harrison's ideas profoundly influenced "New Negro" militants, including A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey, and his synthesis of class and race issues is a key unifying link between the two great trends of the Black Liberation Movement: the labor- and civil-rights-based work of Martin Luther King Jr. and the race and nationalist platform associated with Malcolm X.The foremost Black organizer, agitator, and theoretician of the…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2019
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/7/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.92" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

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



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments


A Note on Usage


Introduction



Intellectual Growth and Development



Crucian Roots (1883-1900)



Self-Education, Early Writings, and the Lyceums (1900-1907)



In Full-Touch with the Life of My People (1907-1909)



Secular Thought, Radical Critiques, and Criticism of Booker T. Washington (1905-1911)



Socialist Radical



Hope in Socialism (1911)



Socialist Writer and Speaker (1912)



Dissatisfaction with the Party (1913-1914)



Toward Independence (1914-1915)



The "New Negro Movement"



Focus on Harlem: The Birth of the "New Negro Movement" (1915-1917)



Founding the Liberty League and The Voice (April-September 1917)



Race-Conscious Activism and Organizational Difficulties (August-December 1917)



The Liberty Congress and the Resurrection of The Voice (January-July 1918)



Harrison on His Character


List of Abbreviations


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index