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July 22, 2009

Houston Baker on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates

The following post is by Houston Baker, Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University and the author of many books, most recently Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. The surreal arrest of Professor Henry...

July 7, 2009

Jeffrey Perry on GRITtv with Laura Flanders

Jeffrey Perry, author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, was recently on GRITtv with Laura Flanders to discuss his new book. (Please note, the embedded video is not showing up on some version of IE. Click here...

July 6, 2009

The African Diaspora as a Perspective on the World — A Post by Patrick Manning

The following post by Patrick Manning, author of The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture, originally appeared on the History News Network. When I agreed in 1990 to write a history of the African diaspora, I found it an exciting...

July 1, 2009

Celebrate the Fourth with Hubert Harrison

The coming Fourth of July weekend will no doubt offer up the familiar American images of cookouts and fireworks as well as tributes to former presidents and the founders of the country. However, for those interested in more obscure but...

May 20, 2009

Patrick Manning on the Future of Black Identity

In the epilogue to The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture, Patrick Manning draws on the history described in his book to explore some key issues, past, present, and future, relating to slavery, racism, reparations, and the advancement of the...

May 13, 2009

Interview with Houston Baker

Voxunion.com has just posted an interview on WPFW with Houston Baker, author of Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. In the interview, Baker discusses the ways leading Black intellectuals such as Michael Eric...

May 7, 2009

Hubert Harrison as book reviewer

Scott McLemee’s piece on the Columbia Journalism Review Web site explores Hubert Harrison’s role as a book reviewer and critic. Harrison is of course the subject of Jeffrey Perry’s new biography, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, which...

April 17, 2009

Jeffrey Perry — A DIY Scholar

The Princeton Alumni Weekly recently ran a great article on Do-it-yourself scholars. Among the scholars portrayed in the article is Jeffrey Perry author of the acclaimed and recently published biography Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. Perry’s new...

January 22, 2009

The End of Black History? — By Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn are the co-editors of The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939 Some pundits have predicted that Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th President of the United States spells the end of...

January 21, 2009

Jeffrey Perry on History News Network

On Monday, History News Network published “The Growing Interest in Hubert Harrison,” by Jeffrey Perry, author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. Perry begins the essay discussing Harrison’s relevance at the dawn of the administration of America’s...

December 10, 2008

"The Most Exciting and Eagerly Awaited Title from a Scholarly Press." — Scott McLemee on Hubert Harrison, by Jeffrey Perry

Scott McLemee qualifies this remark somewhat in his Inside Higher Ed article on Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, admitting that he has been eagerly awaiting this title and he explains why in the article and the accompanying...

November 21, 2008

What Can Be Learned from The Great Depression — A Post by Frederick Douglass Opie.

The following post is from Frederick Douglass Opie, author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America. After the further unraveling of the global economy in October of 2008, the jobless numbers will be much higher. In response,...

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