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A Hubert Harrison Reader

Name: A Hubert Harrison Reader
Brand: Wesleyan University Press
SKU: 9780819564702
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Contributors:

Jeffrey Babcock Perry (Editor), Hubert H. Harrison

Publisher:

Wesleyan University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Political Science, Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Political Ideologies, Ethnic Studies, United States

Book Topic:

Radicalism, American, 20th Century

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Release Date:

2001-06-05

ISBN 13:

9780819564702

Weight:

1.6 lbs

Size:

9.39 x 5.71 x 1.23 inches

Pages:

505

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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.

About the Author

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

A Hubert Harrison Reader

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