NaJeffrey Perry; Columbia University Press, 2008, 524 pp.
Harrison, chizvarwa chekuSt. Croix, aive mumwe wevakatamira kuUS kubva kuCaribbean isingatauri chiSpanish. Kutama uku, uko kuri kuenderera mberi nhasi, kwakaratidza kuve shanduko mukuumbazve "Black America." Kuiswa kweropa idzva muBlack America kubva kuWest Indies kwakaunza vatungamiriri vakakosha, kwete mudiki ari Marcus Garvey naHubert Harrison. Yakaunzawo shanduko mutsika dzekutanga uye mapatani ezvematongerwo enyika eBlack America.
Perry inopa ruzivo rwakakosha paSt. Croix nenhoroondo yayo, zvichibatsira muverengi kuti anzwisise zviri nani mamiriro ezvinhu akaumba Harrison nemafungiro ake. Pakati peizvi kwaiva kukosha kwezvose zviri zviviri rudzi uye kirasi yeHarrison, chokwadi chaizoitika mukushanduka kwake kwezvematongerwo enyika kubva pakutsoropodza kwake kwekutanga uye kwechiuto kwaBooker T. Washington kusvika pakusimba kwake semumiriri weSocialist Party kusvika pakureverera kwake kweruboshwe- bapiro, revolutionary nationalist (kunyangwe internationalist mune zvakawanda) ruzivo rwedzinza-kukurudzira kunoitwa mukati nekunze kwesangano reGarvey.
Evolution yaHarrison pachayo inonakidza mune zvarinotaura nezvekutanga 20th century US yakasara. Harrison akafungidzira kuti Bato reSocialist (SP), nemaitiro aro ekurwisa capitalist, yaizova imba yechisikigo. Hapana chimwe chaigona kuva kunze kwechokwadi, zvisinei. Iyo SP, yakakamurwa zvakashata pakati pemapapiro ekuruboshwe nekurudyi, zvese asi kufuratira rudzi sechinhu chepakati chenharaunda yeUS. Kunyange vamwe vevatungamiri vayo vaitaura uye vakashinga, vakadai saEugene V. Debs, vakakundikana kukoshesa basa remarudzi uye rusaruraganda mukubvisa demokrasi yeUnited States, kudzvinyirirwa kwevanhu vane ruvara, uye kupatsanurwa kweboka revashandi.
Pakupedzisira, Harrison akagumisa kuti "radish socialism" (izwi rakagadzirwa muzana remakore rechi20 richiratidza chitsvuku kana chesocialist kunze, uye rusaruraganda rwevachena kana chena mukati) hahupi ramangwana rezvematongerwo enyika kana kuti kurwira rusununguko rweVatema. Sezvineiwo, izvi hazvina kuita kuti Harrison abve kubva kune radicalism, asi kuti akatanga chirongwa chekutsanangudza zvese zviri zviviri zvematongerwo enyika uye zvematongerwo enyika.
"Nzvimbo" yezvematongerwo enyika yaHarrison inomuita munhu anonakidza. Sezvinyorwa zvePerry, aive Harrison akakurudzira kuvandudzwa kwaMarcus Garvey. Garvey akasarudza kutama kubva kuHarrison's anti-imperialism, uye panzvimbo pezvo akagashira zvematongerwo enyika zvisingaite kunetsana (uye zvakachengeteka), pakutanga. Hutera hwaHarrison pachake, kusanganisira asi husina kuganhurirwa pakubata mari, zvakakonzera kuti avharwe naGarvey, aive nani pakuvaka sangano. Zvekare, sezvakanyorwa naPerry uye zvinopesana nengano dzakakurumbira, Garvey akange asisiri munhu anoshamisa uye asiri nani mutauri kupfuura Harrison.
Hubert Harrison inoda kuverengwa nekunyudzwa kuitira kuti titende kukura kwe20th century Black radicalism. Nhoroondo huru, kusanganisira nhoroondo yeAfrica America, inogona kufuratira vatambi vakakosha, masangano, uye mafambiro. Panzvimbo pokuwana nzwisiso yakazara yokukura kwegadziriro, munhu anowana zviono bedzi. Izvi zvinogona kuoneka kunyangwe mune dzimwe ongororo dzevatema radicalism kana ichiudzwa kuburikidza nenhoroondo dzehupenyu hwe "makuru" manhamba.
Perry anoongorora Harrison semurume uye wekufamba. Iri harisi bhuku rakanyorwa naHarrison sycophant, kunyangwe Perry achiyemura zvakanyanya Harrison. Iko kuongororwa kwakakosha kwenhamba yakakosha pane kiyi uye isinganzwisisike nguva nenguva.
Zvinosuwisa kuti Perry akasarudza kutaura nyaya yaHarrison mumavhoriyamu maviri. Kunyangwe paine zvakawanda zvekutaura nezve Harrison nehupenyu hwake, matambudziko ezvematongerwo enyika akatarisana naHarrison uye sarudzo dzaakaita dzinoda kuwanikwa nenzira inosvikika kuvaverengi vanomiririra.
Izvozvo zvakati, Hubert Harrison ibasa rakanakisa uye mupiro mukuru kuhunyanzvi hwekubatana neBlack radicalism. Perry anofanirwa kuombererwa nekuunza, uye mune dzimwe nguva kuunzazve, iyi ine simba, kunyangwe zvinokatyamadza-asi-yakakanganwa nhamba kune nyanzvi uye vatsigiri vezana ramakore rechi21.
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Bill Fletcher, Jr. ndiye mupepeti mukuru we BlackCommentator.com, Senior Scholar neInstitute for Policy Studies, uye mutungamiri wekare weTransAfrica Forum. Ndiye mubatanidzwa we Solidarity Divided.
