[Marxism] Jeff Perry reading on Hubert Harrison

[Louis Proyect]

> Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918
> by Jeffrey B. Perry
> Book Talk and Book Signing
>  	Sunday, January 4, 2009
> 7:00 pm 
> Bluestockings Bookstore, Fair Trade Cafe
> 172 Allen Street
> New York, New York	
> Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry will present a PowerPoint presentation and lecture, as
> well as sign copies of his newest book Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem
> Radicalism, 1883-1918.
> "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
> nationalist platform associated with Malcolm X.
> "The foremost black organizer, agitator, and theoretician of the Socialist
> Party of New York, Harrison was also the founder of the "New Negro"
> movement, the editor of Negro World, and the principal radical influence on
> the Garvey movement. He was a highly praised journalist and critic
> (reportedly the first regular black book reviewer), a freethinker and early
> proponent of birth control, a supporter of black writers and artists, a
> leading public intellectual, and a bibliophile who helped transform the
> 135th Street Public Library into an international center for research in
> black culture. His biography offers profound insights on race, class,
> religion, immigration, war, democracy, and social change in America."(1)
> (For more information call 212- 777-6028)
> About the Author
> Jeffrey B. Perry <http://www.jeffreybperry.net>  is an independent scholar
> of the working class formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and
> Columbia University. Perry preserved and inventoried the Hubert H. Harrison
> papers (now at Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library) and
> is the editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader. He is also literary executor for
> Theodore W. Allen and edited and introduced Allen's Class Struggle and the
> Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race.
> (1)Columbia University Press
> <http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-13910-6/hubert-harrison> .