The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism by Gerald Horne

Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies.

This book contains all the history reactionary settlers do not want you to know.Phone: (713) 743-3114 Email: Office: 546 Agnes Arnold Hall Download CVĭr. There's an ongoing attack against 'Critical Race Theory,' the most recent example being FL Governor Ron DeSantis blocking FL teachers from teaching African American history. history right into the Civil Rights movement and the fascistic turn of the Republican Party, with Texas as the hub. civil war, he turns his attention to the rise of Jim Crow in Texas and Oklahoma, taking U.S. Ultimately, Horne asserts, Texas in the 1860s was much like North Carolina in the 1580s, in that poorer and richer European migrants across class lines joined forces, and poor Europeans were loath to join hands with Africans or oppose depredations against indigenes, crucial to the rise of fascism in the Lone Star State.Īfter fully documenting the counter-revolution, annexation, and the U.S. Horne doesn't shy away from the at times unsavory actions of African Americans and indigenous tribes, who often committed heinous crimes against each other in service of the colonial state or in yearning for citizenship credentials. Texans had three goals during the 1850s: (1) annex Cuba (2) reinstate the African slave trade and (3) enter and extradition treaty with Mexico to return slaves who fled Texas for abolitionist Mexico. Following the counter-revolution of 1836, annexation was sought by the settlers for fear of Texas becoming a new Haiti - with large Black and indigenous populations supported by Mexico and Haiti, and not opposed by Britain and France.

slaveholders to defeat the rise of abolitionism coming from Mexico. Among the many central themes presented is the desire of U.S. Civil War under Emperor Maximilian, and ultimately turned into a puppet government of the U.S.Ībundant in detail and testimony, Horne moves with dialectical precision across more than a century of history.

The story is really centered around Mexico and the relationship between the slave republic, the often ill-defined entity of 'Texas,' and its southern neighbor Mexico: conquered by France in the chaos of the U.S. In The Counterrevolution of 1836 he explores not only the roots of American fascism as a natural outgrowth of indigenous genocide and racial slavery, but also the rich history of resistance in both indigenous and African populations. In his 'Apocalypse' trilogy - The Dawning of the Apocalypse, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, and The Counter-Revolution of 1776, he sets out to identify the forces, national and global, that shaped the slave republic amid the rise of an incipient 'whiteness'. In many ways, this feels like Gerald Horne's magnum opus.

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism by Gerald Horne