{"product_id":"hubert-harrison-9780231182638","title":"Hubert Harrison","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHubert Harrison (18831927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and activist who combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a potent political radicalism. In this second volume of his acclaimed biography, Jeffrey B. Perry traces the final decade of Harrison's life, from 1918 to 1927.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis long-awaited final volume guides us through the last decade of Harrison’s life, when he played a major role in the political upheavals and cultural transformations that shaped Harlem in the wake of the First World War. Thanks to Perry’s definitive portrait, it will no longer be possible to overlook the fierce and flinty polymath who was arguably the most brilliant Black radical intellectual of his generation. -- Brent Hayes Edwards, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey B. Perry’s much-anticipated second volume on Hubert Harrison forces scholars to rethink the history of the Black radical tradition, the New Negro movement, and African American social movements. Through this magnificent exploration of Harrison’s life, Perry establishes Harrison’s centrality to early twentieth-century Black nationalist, pan-African, and socialist thought. -- Ousmane Power-Greene, author of \u003ci\u003eAgainst Wind and Tide: The African American Struggle Against the Colonization Movement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers an unparalleled explication of Harrison’s courageous journalism, perspicacious theoretical writings, electric oratory, wide-ranging political activity, persistent organization building, expansive mentorship and influence, and radical commitment to Black and working-class liberation. Equal in rigor, insight, and erudition to the first volume, this book completes the biography that the father of Harlem radicalism demands and deserves. -- Charisse Burden-Stelly, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eW. E. B. Du Bois: A Life in American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerry’s magnificent achievement reaffirms that the life and work of Hubert Harrison stood at the center of the New Negro movement, the Harlem Renaissance, and American life and thought in general. This excellent book should broaden the prevailing conceptions of the history of ideas, sociology of knowledge, and intellectual history. Anyone who peruses this biography will experience a revelation, with respect to content, interpretation, and methods, and an epiphany respecting the professional ethos. -- Wilson J. Moses, author of \u003ci\u003eThomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe brilliant radical educator and activist Hubert Harrison has found in Jeffrey B. Perry a meticulous and indefatigable champion. Perry serves as both a perceptive guide to Harrison’s immense literary output and as Harrison’s partner in setting the historical record straight. For scholars who want to understand this once-hidden parent of Harlem radicalism, Perry’s work is the essential starting point. -- Brian Jones, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tuskegee Student Revolt: Black Power on Booker T. Washington's Campus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHubert Harrison was a profoundly prolific writer and activist with a bottomless reservoir of insight. Perry, in this second volume, continues his deep dive into Harrison’s work, surfacing with fresh illumination of his legacy. J. A. Rogers said Harrison worked tirelessly to enlighten others, and those words characterize Perry’s pursuit. -- Herb Boyd, author of \u003ci\u003eBaldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHubert Harrison is one of those historical transformative figures who demands full revelation. Perry’s meticulous scholarship continues that process from which future studies can only benefit. -- Carole Boyce Davies, author of \u003ci\u003eLeft of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerry’s book symbolically captures the heavy weight of history. His close and meticulous examination of Harrison’s life sheds light on this ‘renaissance man,’ restoring Harrison’s career and removing it from the shadow of Marcus Garvey’s legacy. Perry lifts the veil off the face of history and documents the genius of a man. -- E. Ethelbert Miller, author of \u003ci\u003eIf God Invented Baseball: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading\u003ci\u003e When Africa Awakes\u003c\/i\u003e as an undergrad introduced me to Hubert Harrison. I have remained an ardent fan of Harrison since, motivated by his insistence, in When Africa Awakes, we should study Africa and Africans because they have much to teach us. Jeffrey B. Perry's two-volume biography of this activist-intellectual and polyglot rewards, and even exceeds, why many of us have been so drawn to Harrison's life and work. Harrison's political and intellectual acumen made him a multiverse, skilled at numerous things, packaged into one exceptionally gifted individual, all brought to life in Perry's deeply researched and carefully-written volumes, reintroducing Harrison to a new generation who will no doubt become awestruck as I did many years ago. -- Kwasi Konadu, author of \u003ci\u003eOur Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e[Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927] \u003c\/i\u003eultimately illustrates the continued relevance of Harrison's insights on various topics including race, class, and social change. * Princeton Alumni Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey B Perry has done a great service with his epic, two-part biography. * International Socialism *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Usage\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: “New Negro Movement” Editor and Activist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Return to Harlem and Resurrection of \u003ci\u003eThe Voice \u003c\/i\u003e(July–December 1918)\u003cbr\u003e2. Political Activities in Washington and Virginia (January–July 1919)\u003cbr\u003e3. \u003ci\u003eNew\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNegro \u003c\/i\u003eEditor and Agitator (July–December 1919)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Editor of the \u003ci\u003eNegro World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Reshaping the \u003ci\u003eNegro World \u003c\/i\u003eand Comments on Garvey (December 1919–May 1920)\u003cbr\u003e5\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eDebate with \u003ci\u003eThe Emancipator \u003c\/i\u003e(March–April 1920)\u003cbr\u003e6. Early \u003ci\u003eNegro World \u003c\/i\u003eWritings (January–July 1920)\u003cbr\u003e7. The 1920 UNIA Convention and Influence on Garvey (August–November 1920)\u003cbr\u003e8. Post-Convention Meditations, Writings, and Reviews (September–December 1920)\u003cbr\u003e9. Early 1921 \u003ci\u003eNegro World \u003c\/i\u003eWritings and Reviews (January–April 1921)\u003cbr\u003e10. The Liberty League, Tulsa, and Mid-1921 Writings (May–September 1921)\u003cbr\u003e11. \u003ci\u003eNegro World\u003c\/i\u003e Writings and Reviews (September 1921–April 1922)\u003cbr\u003e12. The Period of Garvey’s Arrest (October 1921–March 1922)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: “Free-lance Educator”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13. Lecturer, Book Reviewer, and Citizenship (March 1922–June 1923)\u003cbr\u003e14. The KKK, Garvey’s Conviction, Speaking, Virgin Islands, and Reviews (1923)\u003cbr\u003e15. \u003ci\u003eBoston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, Board of Ed, and the\u003ci\u003e New Negro \u003c\/i\u003e(January–June 1924)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: The Struggle for International Colored Unity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16. ICUL, Midwest Tour, Board of Ed, NYPL, and 1925 (March 1924–December 1925)\u003cbr\u003e17. NYC Talks, Workers School, and \u003ci\u003eModern Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e (January–September 1926)\u003cbr\u003e18. Lafayette Theatre Strike, \u003ci\u003eNigger Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e, and Garvey Divorce (June–December 1926)\u003cbr\u003e19. The \u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Courier\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e Voice of the Negro\u003c\/i\u003e (January–April 1927)\u003cbr\u003e20. Last Months and Death (May–December 1927)\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864258031959,"sku":"9780231182638","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231182638.jpg?v=1722271108","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hubert-harrison-9780231182638","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}