AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE INTERNATIONAL IMAGINARY: GERALD HORNE'S PROGRESSIVE VISION.

WHITE Pacific: US Imperialism & Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War, The (Book); COLD War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor & Independence Struggles in the British West Indies (Book)

The article discusses the scholarship of African American historian Gerald Horne. The author identifies several of Horne's books, including "White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War," "Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies," and "From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War Against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980," as significant to Horne's development as a scholar. The author states that Horne's work has evolved from African American domestic political involvement to the role of internationalism in progressive black thought and the study of global imperialism, specifically in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.