Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Proposed Syllabus: Black Communist Biography and Authobiography


Carole Boyce Davies - Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

Nell Irvin Painter - Narrative of the Life of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South

Harry Haywood - Black Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist

Angelo Herndon - Let Me Live

Gerald Horne - Black Liberation/Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party

W.E.B. DuBois - Autobiography of W.E.B. Dubois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century

Paul Buhle - CLR James: The Artist as
Revolutionary

William Patterson - The Man Who Cried Genocide