When Africa awakes / The "inside story" of the stirrings and strivings of the new Negro in the Western world
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Hubert Henry Harrison's When Africa Awakes is an important collection of essays and articles written by one of America's great, but seldom noted intellectuals. The collection, originally published in 1920, provides valuable insight on the PanAfrican world of Harrison's time and sheds considerable light on the state of the contemporary African world. Harrison uses the term Africa to signify the unity of Black people throughout the world. In his lifetime, Harrison (1883-1927) worked diligently toward the unity and enlightenment of his community. A labor leader, editor, teacher, and author, Harr...
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- WHEN AFRICA AWAKES The “inside Story” of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER I. THE BEGINNINGS
- Launching the Liberty League
- Resolutions Passed at the Liberty League Meeting
- The Liberty League’s Petition to the House of Representatives of the United States, July 4, 1917
- CHAPTER II. DEMOCRACY AND RACE FRICTION
- The East St. Louis Horror
- “Arms and the Man”
- The Negro and the Labor Unions
- Lynching: Its Cause and Cure
- CHAPTER III. THE NEGRO AND THE WAR
- Is Democracy Unpatriotic?
- Why Is the Red Cross?
- A Hint of Our Reward
- The Negro at the Peace Congress
- Africa and the Peace
- “They Shall Not Pass!”
- A Cure for the Ku-Klux
- CHAPTER IV. THE NEW POLITICS.
- The New Politics for the New Negro
- The Drift in Politics
- A Negro for President
- When the Tail Wags the Dog
- The Grand Old Party
- CHAPTER V. THE PROBLEMS OF LEADERSHIP.
- Our Professional “Friends”
- Shillady Resigns
- Our White Friends
- A Tender Point
- The Descent of Du Bois
- When the Blind Lead
- Just Crabs
- CHAPTER VI. THE NEW RACE CONSCIOUSNESS.
- The Negro’s Own Radicalism
- Race First Versus Class First
- An Open Letter to the Socialist Party of New York City
- “Patronize Your Own.”
- The Women of Our Race
- To the Young Men of My Race
- CHAPTER VII. OUR INTERNATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS.
- The White War and the Colored World
- U-Need-a Biscuit
- Our Larger Duty
- Help Wanted for Hayti
- The Cracker in the Caribbean
- When Might Makes Right
- Bolshevism in Barbados
- A New International
- The Rising Tide of Color
- The White War and the Colored Races
- The Sham of “Democracy”
- Sir Harry Johnston Speaks
- The Economics of War
- The Color Line
- The Racial Results of the War
- CHAPTER VIII. EDUCATION AND THE RACE.
- Reading for Knowledge
- Education and the Race
- The Racial Roots of Culture
- The New Knowledge for the New Negro
- Classics, Clerics and Class Culture
- Classicists Ignorant of Latin and Greek
- The Knowledge We Need
- CHAPTER IX. A FEW BOOKS.
- The Negro in History and Civilization
- “Darkwater”
- The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy
- THE BLACK MAN’S BURDEN
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