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Jeffrey B. Perry
Jeffrey B. Perry is an independent scholar. He is the author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia University Press) and editor of Harrison’s When Africa Awakes: The “Inside Story” of the New Negro in the Western World (Diasporic Africa Press).
Hubert Harrison’s wisdom on race, war, and equality
In 1911, Afro-Caribbean intellectual activist Hubert Harrison wrote in the New York Call that “politically the Negro is the touchstone of the modern democratic idea.”
This touchstone metaphor is both startling and profound.
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