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Horne Accepts Moores Professorship
Gerald Horne, formerly a Professor of African & Afro-American Studies, History and Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, has accepted the post of Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston.
As a scholar, Horne has published widely in diverse areas. His most recent book--'Race War! White Supremacy & the Japanese Attack on the British Empire', NYU Press, 2003--involved primary research on five continents, though the main focus is on Colonial Hong Kong, where he spent the 1999-2000 academic year as a Fulbright Scholar at Hong Kong University.
This was Horne's second book that concerns the British Empire. In 1995 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Zimbabwe, which led to the publication of his book, 'From the Barrel of a Gun: The U.S. & the war Against Zimbabwe', Univ. of No. Carolina Press, 2001.
Before teaching at Chapel Hill, Horne served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Black Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara. While there, he conducted research that led to two major studies of that region: 'Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s', University Press of Virginia, 1995 and 'Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds & Trade Unionists', University of Texas Press, 2001.
The book on Watts was 'short-listed' for the Robert Park Award of the American Sociological Association.
Horne also has published widely on Black Radicalism with his major works including, 'Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois', NYU Press, 2000 and 'Black Liberation/Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party', University of Delaware Press, 1994.
Presently, he is completing a number of manuscripts, including another book concerning Southern California--'Red Hollywood: John Howard Lawson and the Communist Party;' another labor history--'Black Labor at Sea: Ferdinand Smith, from the National Maritime Union to the Communist Party to Jamaica; and another study concerning U.S. diplomatic history, 'Black & Brown: African-Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920.' The latter two works are both under contract with NYU Press and are 'in press.'
He is editing an Encyclopedia on African-Americans for Oxford University Press and has in the pipeline a number of other works, including 'A Negro Fascist? The Mystery of Lawrence Dennis'; 'The Deepest South: The U.S. & Brazil in Slavery'; and 'Black & Saffron: African-Americans & India.'
Horne received his B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; his J.D. from the University of California-Berkeley; and his M.Phil. and Ph.d. from Columbia University.
Before entering academia, he served as Special Counsel for the Hospital Workers Union in New York City--now an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and as Executive Director of the National Conference of Black Lawyers. In that latter capacity he was asked by the Union of Arab Jurists to mediate the Civil War in Sudan, which he did in the 1980s, shuttling between New York, London and Khartoum.
As a political activist, Horne ran for the U.S. Senate from California on a third-party ticket in 1992, receiving 305,000 votes. He was also active in the anti-apartheid movement, coordinating the raising of tens of thousands of dollars for Nelson Mandela's African National Congress of South Africa and the present ruling party of Namibia--then a 'liberation movement'--SWAPO. He participated in numerous human rights delegations, including a visit to Cambodia, shortly after the ouster of the Khmer Rouge and a number of visits to the West Bank and Gaza.
As a journalist, Horne formerly authored a weekly column that appeared in a number of African-American newspapers and in the fall of 2000 covered anti-corporate-led globalization demonstrations in Prague.
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