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  • The Counter-Revolution of 1776

    Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

    by Gerald Horne ...
    How the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War: "Meticulous, thorough, fascinating, and thought-provoking." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930–1950

    Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, & Trade Unionists

    by Gerald Horne ...
    "A taut narrative in elegant prose . . . Horne has unearthed a vitally important and mostly forgotten aspect of Hollywood and labor history." — Publishers WeeklyAs World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turmoil escalated further when the studios ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Negro Comrades of the Crown

    African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation

    by Gerald Horne ...
    While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horne reveals in his latest work of historical recovery that after 1776, Africans and African-Americans continued to collaborate with Great Britain against the United States in battles big and small until the Civil War.Many African Americans viewed Britain, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    The Dawning of the Apocalypse

    The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century

    by Gerald Horne ...
    Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth".August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved Africans to what was to become South Carolina. The ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • China Changes Everything

    An anthology by social justice activists, journalists and commentators

    by Sara Flounders, Jacqueline Luqman, Gerald Horne ...
    China is the 21****st century's greatest success story, rising from poverty to become a leading force for change in the world. In these essays, learn how China is transforming social and economic life.China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation program has helped half its population - 800 million people - overcome extreme poverty.With free education from pre-school through graduate school, China's youth ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

    The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean

    by Gerald Horne ...
    Chronicles how American culture - deeply rooted in white supremacy, slavery and capitalism - finds its origin story in the 17th century European colonization of Africa and North America, exposing the structural origins of American "looting"Virtually no part of the modern United States—the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutions, sports, literature, economics, even protest ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Jazz and Justice

    Racism and the Political Economy of the Music

    by Gerald Horne ...
    A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitationThe music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth century North America—most likely in New Orleans—based on the musical traditions of Africans, newly freed from slavery. Grounded in the music known as the “blues,” which expressed the pain, sufferings, and hopes of Black folk then pulverized by Jim ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press

    Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox

    by Gerald Horne ...
    For nearly fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African Americans of his day and a gifted, if unofficial, diplomat who forged links with figures as diverse as Jawaharlal Nehru, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Nixon.Gerald Horne ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Race Woman

    The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois

    by Gerald Horne ...
    An intriguing study of artist and civil rights activist Shirley Graham Du BoisOne of the most intriguing activists and artists of the twentieth century, Shirley Graham Du Bois also remains one of the least studied and understood. In Race Woman, Gerald Horne draws a revealing portrait of this controversial figure who championed the civil rights movement in America, the liberation struggles in ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Facing the Rising Sun

    African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity

    by Gerald Horne ...
    The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II.In November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of African Americans engaged in military drills were eagerly awaiting a Japanese invasion of the U. S.— an invasion that they planned to join. Since the rise of Japan as a superpower less than a century earlier, African Americans across class and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paul Robeson

    The Artist as Revolutionary

    by Gerald Horne ...
    Series series Revolutionary Lives
    A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling of social justice led him to abandon both the NFL and Hollywood and become one of the most important political activists of his generation - battling ... Read more

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  • The End of Empires

    African Americans and India

    by Gerald C Horne ...
    In the past fifty years, according to Christine So, the narratives of many popular Asian American books have been dominated by economic questions-what money can buy, how money is lost, how money is circulated, and what labor or objects are worth. Focusing on books that have achieved mainstream popularity, Economic Citizens unveils the logic of economic exchange that determined Asian Americans’ ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD