Hubert Harrison, Theodore W. Allen & Centrality of Struggle Against White Supremacy, 5 of 5
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Date: 2014-09-15

Hubert Harrison, Theodore W. Allen, and the Centrality of the Struggle Against White Supremacy
Class 5 of 5-Session Class
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” – Vol. 1: “Racial Oppression and Social Control” and Vol. 2: “The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America” (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). He is currently working on a new edition of "When Africa Awakes" by Hubert Harrison for Diasporic Africa Press and Vol. 2 of the Hubert Harrison biography.
On the 5 Session program see http://www.jeffreybperry.net/blog.htm?post=962178

For the article “The Developing Conjuncture and Some Insights From Hubert Harrison and Theodore W. Allen on the Centrality of the Fight Against White Supremacy,” by Jeffrey B. Perry, see http://clogic.eserver.org/2010/2010.html
For information on Hubert Harrison see http://www.jeffreybperry.net/disc.htm
and see http://www.jeffreybperry.net/_center__font_size__3__font_color__green___b_3__hubert_harrison_br___center___fo_86150.htm

  For a video of a Slide Presentation/Talk on Hubert Harrison see http://youtu.be/heBKm1ytd5Q
For information on Theodore W.  Allen see http://www.jeffreybperry.net/_center__i__font_size__3__font_color__sepia___b_6__the_invention_of_the_br_white_116387.htm
and see
http://www.jeffreybperry.net/_center__font_size__3__font_color__sepia___b_4__theodore_w__allen_br___font_size_86151.htm
 For a Slide Presentation/Talk on Theodore W. Allen’s “The Invention of the White Race” see http://youtu.be/2Gq77rOuZck
For information on the 5-Session Course from The Commons website see http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=12730
For information on Jeffrey B. Perry see http://www.jeffreybperry.net