Five Classes On Harlem Activist Hubert Harrison Starts July 26

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Hubert Harrison

Class: “Hubert Harrison, Theodore W. Allen, and the Centrality of the Struggle Against White Supremacy.”

5-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Saturday, July 26, 2014, 10:00 am –12 Noon

Classes continue on August 2, 9, 16, 30 at 10 am.

The Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue (between Hoyt and Bond), Brooklyn, New York, NY, 11217.

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This course will focus on the relevance today of important insights from Hubert H. Harrison (1883-1927) and Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005), two of the twentieth century’s most important writers on race and class.

The St. Croix, Virgin Island-born, Harlem-based Harrison was the leading Black activist and theoretician in the Socialist Party; a brilliant writer, orator, and editor; the founder of the “New Negro Movement,” the major radical influence on A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey, and a self-described “radical internationalist.” He is known as “The Father of Harlem Radicalism.”

The Brooklyn-based Allen originated his “white skin privilege” analysis in 1965, authored Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race, in 1975, and authored the two-volume The Invention of the White Race (1994, 1997; Verso Books: New Expanded Edition, 2012).

Jeffrey B. Perry edited A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan University Press, 2001) and authored Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia University Press, 2008). Perry also contributed new front and back matter to the new edition of Allen’s The Invention of the White Race and he authored “The Developing Conjuncture and Some Insights From Hubert Harrison and Theodore W. Allen on the Centrality of the Fight Against White Supremacy” (Cultural Logic, 2010).

 

 

 

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