Against US Imperialism: Pan-Africanism and Black Internationalism, 1900-2016

Gerald Horne Gerald Horne is an African-American historian who currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Born in January 1949 he was raised in St. Louis, . After undergraduate education at he received his Ph.D. from and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a frequent contributor to Political Affairs magazine.

A prolific author, Horne has published on W. E. B. Du Bois and has written books on a wide range of neglected but by no means marginal or minor episodes of world history. He writes about topics he perceives as misrepresented struggles for justice, in particular communist struggles and struggles against imperialism, , , and . Individuals whose lives his work has highlighted in their historical contexts have included blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter , (a Jamaican-born communist, sailor, labor leader, and co-founder of the National Maritime Union), the perplexing Lawrence Dennis, an African-American fascist and racist who passed for white, and the feminist, anti- colonialist, internationalist intellectual whose own career was overshadowed by that of her famous husband.

Rose M. Brewer, Ph.D. Rose M. Brewer is an activist scholar and The Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor and past chairperson of the Department of African American & African Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Brewer publishes extensively on Black feminism, political economy, social movements, race, class, gender and social change. Her books include the forthcoming Rod Bush: Lessons of a Radical Black Scholar, The U.S. Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement, and several other co- edited volumes. She’s published numerous essays, book chapters, and refereed journal articles. Her current book project examines the impact of late capitalism on Black life in the U.S. Brewer has held the Sociologist for Women in Society Feminist Lectureship in Social Change, a Wiepking Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Miami University of Ohio, and was a 2013 Visiting Scholar in the Social Justice Initiative, University of Illinois-Chicago. She is a University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Medalist, a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, a winner of the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Teaching award, and a Josie Johnson Social Justice Award recipient. Her political commitment remains the struggle for transformational social change in the U.S. and globally. She has been a key organizer of the World and the U.S. Social Forums.

Minkah Makakani Minkah Makalani is associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of the book, In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939, and co-editor (with Davarian Baldwin) of Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem. His work has appeared in The Journal of African American History, Souls, Small Axe, Social Text, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Women, Gender, and Families of Color, as well as the collections Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of U.S. History, and C.L.R. James’ Beyond a Boundary Fifty Years On. He is currently working on a study of C. L. R. James’s return to Trinidad in 1958-1962, which is tentatively titled, Calypso Conquered the World: C.L.R. James and the Politically Unimaginable in Trinidad, which examines how his work on West Indies Federation reflected his sense of the possibilities for democracy in the Caribbean postcolony.

Charisse Burden-Stelly Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Assistant Professor and Mellon Faculty Fellow of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College. She is a scholar of radical Black critical and political theory, political economy, and intellectual history. Her areas of specialization include the intersections of anticommunism, antiradicalism, and antiblackness; Black Studies epistemology; and triple exploitation. She is currently working on two book projects. The first, Epistemologies of Blackness: Black Studies, Neoliberalization, and the Elision of Radical Black Political Economy (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019) explores the conjuncture of epistemology, institutionalization, anti-, and class politics in Black Studies from 1975-2015. W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History (Greenwood Press, 2019), co-authored with Gerald Horne, revises and updates Dr. Horne’s biography of Du Bois with new chapters on his cultural and historical significance; sidebars that offer connections to larger social, political, and intellectual phenomena; and an appendix that analyzes key primary documents from Du Bois’s archives. In 2017, Dr. Burden-Stelly received the National Conference of Black Political Scientists’ Alex Willingham Best Political Theory Paper Award, and in 2018 she became a regular contributor to Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. She has several book chapters and articles forthcoming, and her published work appears in journals including Souls: A Critical Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society and The CLR James Journal.

Sundiata Cha-Jua Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, from taught in the History department and directed the Black Studies Program at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and taught history at Pennsylvania State University and Southern Illinois which he earned a Ph.D. in 1993, and in African American Studies. He previously University at Edwardsville. Dr. Cha-Jua received Advanced Certificates in Black Studies from Northeastern University in 1992 and from the National Council for Black Studies, Director’s Institute in 1992. Dr. Cha-Jua's research agenda consists of explorations of Black racial formation and transformation theory, Urban histories/community studies, Radical Black Intellectual Traditions, and culturally relevant pedagogical practices. He is specifically interested in investigating African American community formation, lynching, historical materialism, African American historiography, social movement theory, and Black social movements.

He is the author of the award-winning America's First Black Town, Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830- 1915 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), the monograph, Sankofa: Racial Formation and Transformation, Toward a Theory of African American History (Washington State University, 2000), and co-edited Race Struggles (University of Illinois Press, 2009) with Theodore Koditschek and Helen Neville. He has published dozens of articles in leading journals, including The Black Scholar, Journal of African American History, Journal of American History, Journal of Urban History, New Politics and Souls. He coauthored, “The 'Long Movement' as Vampire: Temporal and Spatial Fallacies in Recent Black Freedom Studies” in the Journal of African American History which co-won the 2009 OAH EBSCOhost America: History and Life Award for the best journal article in United States History, 2007-2009.

He recently finished “Rising Waters”: Explorations in Radical Black History for Lexington Press and is working on two book projects, A Critical Introduction to Black Studies: Transformations & Black Intellectual Traditions, with Lou Turner and Beyond the Rape Myth: Black Resistance to Lynching, 1867-1930.

Cha-Jua is the returning President of the National Council for Black Studies, 2012-14, Senior Editor of The Black Scholar, serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of African American Studies and the Journal of Black Studies, and is a Life member of the National Council for Black Studies and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He is participating in the Organization of American Historians' OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program for 2010-2013.