Gerald Horne
John and Rebecca Moores Professor (United States, African American)
546 Agnes Arnold Hall
(713) 743-3114
ghorne@mail.uh.edu

Dr. Horne is a scholar of African American history and Black Studies. He holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies. His research has encompassed a wide scope of critical topics over several years, such as race, African Americans and labor, politics and the history of civil rights court cases. Dr. Horne received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Horne has also been the director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center.

Teaching:
Dr. Horne’s undergraduate courses include the Civil Rights Movement and American History through Film. He also teaches graduate courses in Labor History and 20th Century African American History. Dr. Horne uses a variety of teaching techniques that enrich his classes and motivate students to participate.

Research:
Dr. Horne is the author of more than seventeen books and one hundred scholarly articles and reviews. His current research focuses on a variety of topics such as the U.S., Brazil and slavery, black labor at sea, the Communist Party in Hollywood, and Negro fascism.

Selected Publications:
Black & Brown: Africans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (New York University Press, 2005).

Race War! White Supremacy & the Japanese Attack on the British Empire (New York University Press, 2003).

Powell v. Alabama: The Scottsboro Boys and American Justice (FranklinWatts, 1997).

Testaments of Courage: Selections from Men’s Slave Narratives (Franklin Watts, 1995).

Race for the Planet: the U.S. & the New World Order (Kendall-Hunt,
1994).

Black & Red: W.E.B. DuBois & the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 1944-1963 (State University of New York Press, 1985).

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