Gerald Horneis Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of fields including labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. Dr. Horne is the author of more than thirty books, includingThe Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas slavery & Jim Crow and the roots of American FascismandThe Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean. Tionne Alliyah Parrisis a PhD candidate at the University of Hertfordshire who received a 1st Class Undergraduate degree and a Masters degree from the University of Dundee in Scotland. She is a specialist in African American history, and specifically in the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Her research is focused on American society's response to race-based political protests-as well as Communist ideology within Black Radical protests.
“A tour de force of historical excavation.” —Michael Eric Dyson, author of The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America “One of the great historians of our time . . . his revolutionary fervor is undeniable.” —Cornel West, public intellectual, author of Race Matters “[Gerald Horne] demystifies and reveals History as a concentrated storyline of social struggles and transformative results.” —Danny Glover, citizen-artist, actor “Reverberating with the cries of revolution.” —Claudine Michel, Editor, Journal of Haitian Studies Praise for Race to Revolution: “One cannot possibly understand the journey from bondage to freedom in America without wrestling with its consequences for the people of African descent in Cuba. Their story is our story, and thanks to Horne, we can now study its flow in a single, and profound, narrative.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University