The Colonial Origins of the Concept of “Whiteness" Featuring Gerald Horne
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August 2, 2023
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In light of the recent Fourth-of-July holiday, Eleanor's guest – historian Gerald Horne – shares his analysis of a likely motive for independence on the part of colonial America's white elite: the desire to preserve slavery in the colonies, despite the rise of abolitionism in Britain. He also looks at the colonial origins of the concept of “whiteness,” and follows this theme forward to present-day events, including the Supreme Court decision striking down affirmative action programs at universities.
"Gerald Horne on Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy & the formation of the US"
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Gerald Horne | Department of History
Gerald Horne
Moores Professor of History
Phone: (713) 743-3114
Email: ghorne@uh.edu
Office: 546 Agnes Arnold Hall
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Dr. Gerald Horne—B.A. Princeton University; J.D. University of California-Berkeley; Ph.D. Columbia University—has published dozens of books, including most recently, The Capital of Slavery: Washington, D.C., 1800-1865. His past books have included works on, inter alia, Hollywood; Jazz; Boxing; African liberation movements; the Haitian Revolution (translated into French); the Cuban Revolution (translated into Spanish); the Mexican Revolution; Caribbean independence struggles; Brazilian slavery (translated into Portuguese); the Pacific War (translated into Japanese); biographies of Paul Robeson and W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois. His first book of 2026 will be The Counter-Revolution of 1893: The Hawaii Coup and the Roots of U.S. Imperialism in the Asia-Pacific Basin which is part of a trilogy that includes The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the U.S.A. and The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism. In 2024 he was selected for membership in the Texas Institute of Letters. In 2023 he won the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. Winner of the American Book Award in 2021 was ‘The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism & Capitalism in the Long 16th Century’. In 2017 he received the Ida B. Wells and Cheik Anta Diop Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership from the National Council of Black Studies. In 2014 he received the Carter G. Woodson Scholar’s Medallion for Lifetime Achievement from the Association for the Study of African American Life & History. As an attorney, he won the Hope Stevens Award from the National Conference of Black Lawyers.
Teaching
Dr. Horne's undergraduate courses include the Civil Rights Movement and U.S. History through Film. He also teaches graduate courses in Diplomatic History, Labor History and 20th Century African American History. Dr. Horne uses a variety of teaching techniques that enrich his classes and motivate students to participate.
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Research Interests
Dr. Horne is the author of more than thirty books and one hundred scholarly articles and reviews. His current research includes two forthcoming books: The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery, Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism and Revolting Capital: Racism and Radicalism in Washington, D.C., 1918-1968. His other projects include a study of U.S. imperialism in Northeast Africa, principally Egypt and Ethiopia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a similar study concerning U.S. imperialism in Southeast Asia during the same period.
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Selected Publications:
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and Capitalism in Seventeenth Century North America and the Caribbean, (2018)
Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity, (2018).
Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early Struggle for the Right to Fly, (2017).
The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett’s Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox, (2017).
Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary, (2016).
Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution and the Origins of the Dominican Republic (2015)
Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow, (2014).
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America, 2014.
Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African-American Freedom Struggle, 2014.
Negro Comrades of the Crown: African-Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation, 2012.
Fighting in Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaii, 2011.
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography, 2010.
Mau Mau in Harlem: The U.S. and the Liberation of Kenya, 2009.
The End of Empires: African-Americans and India, 2008.
The Deepest South: The U.S., Brazil and the African Slave Trade, 2007.
The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War, 2006.
The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten, 2005.
Black and Brown: African-Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920, 2004.
Race War! White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire, 2003.
Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois, 2002.
From the Barrel of a Gun: The U.S. and the War Against Zimbabwe, 2001.
