Guest Commentator

Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry, PhD

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry, PhD is an independent, working-class scholar formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia. For almost forty years he has been active in the working class movement as a rank-and-file worker and as a union shop steward, officer, editor, and retiree. He has also been involved in domestic and international social justice issues including affirmative action, union democracy, and anti-apartheid, anti-war, and anti-imperialist work. His Website is www.jeffreybperry.net. Contact Dr. Perry. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

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September 07 & 14, 2017 – Hurricane Irene Combo – Issue 711: Theodore W. Allen’s Work – On Centrality of Struggle Against White Supremacy – Growing in Importance on 98th Anniversary of His Birth

By Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry, PhD Guest Commentator

Allen challenges what he considers to be two main ideological props of white supremacy -- the argument that "racism" is innate (and it is therefore useless to challenge it) and the argument that European-American workers “benefit” from "white race" privileges and white supremacy (and that it is therefore not in their interest to oppose them).

Theodore W. “Ted” Allen (1919-2005) was an anti-white supremacist, working class intellectual and activist. He developed his pioneering class struggle-based analysis of “white skin privilege” beginning…

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Hubert Harrison – Growing Appreciation for this Giant of Black History – December 17 Marked the 89th Anniversary of His Death

By Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry, PhD Guest Commentator

His ideas on the centrality of the struggle against white supremacy anticipated the profound transformative power of the Civil Rights/Black Liberation struggles of the 1960s and his thoughts on “democracy in America” offer penetrating insights on the limitations and potential of America in the twenty-first century.

Hubert Harrison (1883-1927), the “father of Harlem radicalism” and founder of the militant “New Negro Movement,” is a giant of our history. He was extremely important…

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Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race – Analysis

By Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry, PhD Guest Commentator

“When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no ‘white’ people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.”

Theodore W. Allen’s two-volume The Invention of the White Race (The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control, The Invention of…

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