Hubert Harrison : the voice of Harlem radicalism, 1883-1918 / Jeffrey B. Perry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perry, Jeffrey Babcock.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American intellectuals--Biography.

African American intellectuals.

Radicalism--United States--History.

Radicalism.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

Harlem Renaissance.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life.

New York (N.Y.).

United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Harrison, Hubert H.

Harrison, Hubert H--Political and social views.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (624 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political radicalism. Harrison's ideas profoundly influenced ""New Negro"" militants, including A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey, and his synthesis of class and race issues is a key unifying link between the two great trends of the Black Liberation Movement: the labor- and civil-rights-based work of Martin Luther King Jr. and the race and nati

Contents:

Intellectual growth and development

Crucian roots (1883-1900)

Self-education, early writings, and the Lyceums (1900-1907)

In full-touch with the life of my people (1907-1909)

Secular thought, radical critiques, and criticism of Book T. Washington (1905-1911)

Socialist radical

Hope in socialism (1911)

Socialist writer and speaker (1912)

Dissatisfaction with the party (1913-1914)

Toward independence (1914-1915)

The "New Negro Movement"

Focus on Harlem: the birth of the "New Negro Movement" (1915-1917)

Founding the Liberty League and The Voice (April-September 1917)

Race-conscious activism and organizational difficulties (August-December 1917)

The Liberty Congress and the Resurrection of The Voice (January-July 1918)

Appendix: Harrison on his character.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [521]-524) and index.

ISBN:

9786613793478

9781281961280

1281961280

9780231511223

0231511221

OCLC:

826476377