People's World Friday Night Film and Discussion Series
At his request, Dr. Gerald Horne will launch his new book in New Haven at the Peoples Center 37 Howe Street
on Friday, July 25 at 7:00 pm. The book, Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow
includes new material on the Amistad case.
Books will be available for signing at $25 price (list price $29). Please reply if you would like to reserve a book.
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BOOK TALK with Dr. Gerald Horne
Race to Revolution:
The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow
Friday,
July 25 at 7 pm New
Haven Peoples Center 37 Howe Street
The histories
of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined and have
been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution,
historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship between
the two countries by tracing out the interconnections among
slavery, Jim Crow, and revolution. Slavery was central to the
economic and political trajectories of Cuba and the United
States, both in terms of each nation’s internal political and
economic development and in the interactions between the small
Caribbean island and the Colossus of the North.
Horne draws a direct link
between the black experiences in two very different countries
and follows that connection through changing periods of
resistance and revolutionary upheaval. Black Cubans were crucial
to Cuba’s initial independence, and the relative freedom they
achieved helped bring down Jim Crow in the United States,
reinforcing radical politics within the black communities of
both nations. This in turn helped to create the conditions that
gave rise to the Cuban Revolution which, in 1959, shook the
United States to its core.
is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of
African-American History at the University of Houston. He is the
author of more than two dozen books, including The
Counter-Revolution of 1776, Negro Comrades of the
Crown, Mau Mau in Harlem?, From the Barrel
of a Gun, and Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950.
RESERVE
A BOOK FOR PURCHASE AT THE EVENT @ $25 each
E-MAIL ct-pww@pobox.com or
CALL 203-624-8664
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Published by Monthly Review
Press
429 pages
Paper ISBN: 978-1-58367-445-1
Cloth ISBN: 978-1-58367-446-8
Forthcoming in June 2014
Price: $29.00
“Pathbreaking … Their story is our story, and thanks to Horne,
we can now study its flow in a single, and profound, narrative.”429 pages
Paper ISBN: 978-1-58367-445-1
Cloth ISBN: 978-1-58367-446-8
Forthcoming in June 2014
—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
“Gerald Horne is one of our most original historians.”
—Ishmael Reed, John D. MacArthur Fellow
“Horne is in the forefront of historians laboring to revise the entire story of the Americas until the broken pieces are mended.”
—Tom Hayden, author, Inspiring Participatory Democracy
“A very much welcome and important contribution to the scholarship on the workings of trans-national systems.”
—Louis A. Pérez, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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