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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPerry's detailed research brings to life a transformative figure who has been little recognized for his contributions to progressive race and class politics. Booklist Perry's clear prose allows access to a three-dimensional picture of Harrison's life. Library Journal An excellent work and a great contribution to scholarship... Perry must be applauded. -- Bill Fletcher, Jr. Z Magazine [Hubert Harrison] offers profound insights on race, class, religion, immigration, war, democracy, and social change in America. Industrial Worker Through Perry's prodigious research Harrison's brilliance can once more engage a generation eager to find inspiration and renewed political spirit. -- Herb Boyd The Neworld Review [A] brilliant masterpiece. -- Wilson J. Moses American Historical Review This critically important book will do for Harrison what David Levering Lewis did for Du Bois... Essential. Choice This meticulously-researched book fills and enormous gap in the knowledge of black activist intellectuals in the US. -- Carole Boyce Davies Working USA Rich and exhaustively researched. -- Clarence Lang Against the Current Scholars and students... are indeed indebted to Jeffrey Perry for this magisterial study of Hubert Harrison. -- Larry A. Greene New Politics Perry offer(s) new and provocative analyses of African American leadership during the early twentieth century. -- LaShawn Harris Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era Hubert Harrison is more than a work of scholarship. It is a timely act of generous recognition and restitution of a Black Caribbean scholar who played a significant role in the story of Harlem Radicalism. Black Theology: An International Journal Perry's biography gives an illuminating account not only of Harrison's strengths and weaknesses but also of the larger historical contraditions informing Black radicalism and Marxism during Harrison's lifetime. Science & Society Perry's rich biography of Harrison is filled with examples of leadership that would eventually be followed nationwide and result in black political power in Harlem. -- Sterling Johnson Journal of American Ethnic History
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments A Note on Usage Introduction Part I. Intellectual Growth and Development 1. Crucian Roots (1883-1900) 2. Self-Education, Early Writings, and the Lyceums (1900-1907) 3. In Full-Touch with the Life of My People (1907-1909) 4. Secular Thought, Radical Critiques, and Criticism of Booker T. Washington (1905-1911) Part II. Socialist Radical 5. Hope in Socialism (1911) 6. Socialist Writer and Speaker (1912) 7. Dissatisfaction with the Party (1913-1914) 8. Toward Independence (1914-1915) Part III. The "New Negro Movement" 9. Focus on Harlem: The Birth of the "New Negro Movement" (1915-1917) 10. Founding the Liberty League and The Voice (April-September 1917) 11. Race-Conscious Activism and Organizational Difficulties (August-December 1917) 12. The Liberty Congress and the Resurrection of The Voice (January-July 1918) Appendix: Harrison on His Character Abbreviations Notes Select Bibliography Index
