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WHEN AFRICA

AWAKES July'3/1923

KS.
The Inside Story" of the Stirrings and Strivings of the

New Negro in the Western World

By HUBERT H. HARRISON, D.S.C.

uthor of The Negro and the Nation," "Lincoln and
Liberty," and Associate Editor of the Negro World

COPYRIGHTED

By HUBERT H. HARRISON, 1920.

PUBLISHED BY

THE PORRO PRESS

513 Lenox Avenue

NEW YORK CITY

1920

THIS LITTLE RECORD

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

TO THOSE WHO

STOOD BY MY SIDE

IN

LOVE, LABOR AND SACRIFICE

WHEN

THE FOUNDATIONS

WERE LAID

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HUBERT H. HARRISON

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CHAPTERS

INTRODUCTION

PAGE

5

The Negro's Own Radicalism.-Race First versus Class

First.-An Open Letter to the Socialist. Party.-'Patron-

ize Your Own." -The Women of Our Race.--To the

Young Men of My Race.

7. OUR INTERNATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS.

96

The White War and the Colored World.-U-need-a

Biscuit.-Our Larger Duty.-HelpWanted for Hayti.-

The Cracker in the Caribbean.-When Might Makes

Right.-Bolshevism in Barbados.-A New International.

The Rising Tide of Color.-The White War and the

Colored Races.

8. EDUCATION AND THE RACE...

..123

Reading for Knowledge.--Education and the Race.-

The Racial Roots of Culture.-The New Knowledge for

the New Negro.

9. A FEW BOOKS.

..135

The Negro in History and Civilization.-Darkwater.

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-

Supremacy.

EPILOGUE: THE BLACK MAN'S BURDEN; A Reply

to Rudyard Kipling...

..145

INTRODUCTORY

The Great War of 1914-1918 has served to liberate many new ideas undreamt of by those who rushed humanity into that bath of blood. During that war the idea of democracy was widely advertised, especially in the English-speaking world; mainly as a convenient camouflage behind which competing imperialists 'masked their sordid aims. Even the dullest can now see that those who so loudly proclaimed and formulated the new democratic demands never had the slightest intention of extending either the limits or the applications of "democracy.” Ireland and India, Egypt and Russia are still the Ithuriel's spear of the great democratic pretence. The flamboyant advertising of "democracy” has returned to plague the inventors; for the subject populations who contributed their millions in men and billions in treasure for the realization of the ideal which was flaunted before their eyes are now clamoring for their share of it. They are demanding that those who advertised democracy shall now make good. This is the main root of that great unrest which is now troubling the decrepit statesmanship of Europe and America. But the rigid lines of the old

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