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Malcolm X

A Life of Reinvention (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by Manning Marable ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times bestseller, the definitive biography of Malcolm XHailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century American history. Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations, ... Read more

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times bestseller, the definitive biography of Malcolm XHailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century American history. Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations,
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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society

by Manning Marable ...

"How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing texts that has not lost its currency or relevance-even after three decades. Its provocative treatise on the ravages of late capitalism, state violence, incarceration, and patriarchy on the life chances and struggles of black working-class men and women shaped an entire generation, directing our energies ... Read more

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"How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing texts that has not lost its currency or relevance-even after three decades. Its provocative treatise on the ravages of late capitalism, state violence, incarceration, and patriarchy on the life chances and struggles of black working-class men and women shaped an entire generation, directing our energies
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Living Black History

How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future

by Manning Marable ...

Are the stars of the Civil Rights firmament yesterday's news? In Living Black History scholar and activist Manning Marable offers a resounding "No!" with a fresh and personal look at the enduring legacy of such well-known figures as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers and W.E.B. Du Bois. Marable creates a "living history" that brings the past alive for a generation he sees as having ... Read more

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Are the stars of the Civil Rights firmament yesterday's news? In Living Black History scholar and activist Manning Marable offers a resounding "No!" with a fresh and personal look at the enduring legacy of such well-known figures as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers and W.E.B. Du Bois. Marable creates a "living history" that brings the past alive for a generation he sees as having
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Race, Reform, and Rebellion

The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006, Third Edition

by Manning Marable ...

Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's Race, Reform, and Rebellion has become widely known as the most crucial political and social history of African Americans since World War II. Aimed at students of contemporary American politics and society and written by one of the most articulate and eloquent authorities on the movement for black freedom, this acclaimed study traces the ... Read more

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Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's Race, Reform, and Rebellion has become widely known as the most crucial political and social history of African Americans since World War II. Aimed at students of contemporary American politics and society and written by one of the most articulate and eloquent authorities on the movement for black freedom, this acclaimed study traces the
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America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics

Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy

by Grace Lee Boggs, Benjamin DeMott, Erica Frankenberg, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Lani Guinier, Maria Hinojosa, Gary Howard, Colbert I. King, Marc Mauer, Trinh Minh-Ha, Michael Omi, John Telford, Lisa Thurau, Johanna Wald, James J. Zogby, Nell Irvin Painter, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Houston Baker, Bob Herbert, Arthur Levine, Manning Marable, Alvin F. Poussaint, Cornel West, john a. powell ...

Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after ... Read more

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Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after
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The Portable Malcolm X Reader

A Man Who Stands for Nothing Will Fall for Anything

Edited by Manning Marable, Garrett Felber ...

A look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, Manning MarableManning Marable's Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has reshaped perceptions of one of America's great revolutionary thinkers. This volume, the first collection of major documents addressing Malcolm X in decades, features never-before-published material, including ... Read more

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A look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, Manning MarableManning Marable's Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has reshaped perceptions of one of America's great revolutionary thinkers. This volume, the first collection of major documents addressing Malcolm X in decades, features never-before-published material, including
... Read more
Let Nobody Turn Us Around

An African American Anthology

by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Richard Allen, Molefi Kete Asante, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Cyril V. Briggs, Stokely Carmichael, Frederick Douglass, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Olaudah Equiano, Louis Farrakhan, Henry Highland Garnet, Fannie Lou Hamer, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, bell hooks, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Audre Lorde, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Claude McKay, Elijah Muhammad, Huey P. Newton, Solomon Northrup, Rosa Parks, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., A Philip Randolph, Paul Robeson, Jo Ann Robinson, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Bayard Rustin, Maria W. Stewart, Mary Church Terell, Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, David Walker, Booker T. Washington, Harold Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Roy Wilkins, William Julius Wilson ...

This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the twentieth century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable and Mullings, introduce the reader to the character and important controversies of each period ... Read more

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This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the twentieth century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable and Mullings, introduce the reader to the character and important controversies of each period
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The Autobiography of Medgar Evers

A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through his Writings, Letters, and Speeches

by Myrlie Evers-Williams, Manning Marable ...

On the evening of June 12, 1963 -- the day President John F. Kennedy gave his most impassioned speech about the need for interracial tolerance "Medgar Evers, the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, was shot and killed by an assassin's bullet in his driveway. The still-smoking gun -- bearing the fingerprints of Byron De La Beckwith, a staunch white supremacist -- was recovered moments ... Read more

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On the evening of June 12, 1963 -- the day President John F. Kennedy gave his most impassioned speech about the need for interracial tolerance "Medgar Evers, the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, was shot and killed by an assassin's bullet in his driveway. The still-smoking gun -- bearing the fingerprints of Byron De La Beckwith, a staunch white supremacist -- was recovered moments
... Read more
In Battle for Peace (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)

The Story of My 83rd Birthday

by W. E. B. Du Bois ...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, ... Read more

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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas,
... Read more
New Black Renaissance

The Souls Anthology of Critical African-American Studies

by Manning Marable, Adina Popescu, Khary Jones, Patricia Lespinasse ...

Against a backdrop of multiculturalism and Afrocentricity in the intellectual traditions of African-American studies, this book sets new standards and directions for the future. It is the first book to systematically address the many themes that have changed the political and social landscape for African-Americans. Among these changes are new transnational processes of globalization, the ... Read more

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Against a backdrop of multiculturalism and Afrocentricity in the intellectual traditions of African-American studies, this book sets new standards and directions for the future. It is the first book to systematically address the many themes that have changed the political and social landscape for African-Americans. Among these changes are new transnational processes of globalization, the
... Read more
Race and Labor Matters in the New U.S. Economy

by Joseph Wilson, Dan Clawson, Louise Simmons, Roland Zullo, Immanuel Ness, Bill Fletcher Jr., Michael Goldfield, Robin D.G. Kelley, Mandi Isaacs Jackson0, Manning Marable1, Aldon Morris3, Steven Pitts4, Chris Rhomberg5 ...

In this powerful new work, Marable, Ness, and Wilson maintain that contrary to the popular hubris about equality, race is entrenched and more divisive than any time since the Civil Rights Movement. Race and Labor in the United States asserts that all advances in American race relations have only evolved through conflict and collective struggle. The foundation of the class divide in the United ... Read more

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In this powerful new work, Marable, Ness, and Wilson maintain that contrary to the popular hubris about equality, race is entrenched and more divisive than any time since the Civil Rights Movement. Race and Labor in the United States asserts that all advances in American race relations have only evolved through conflict and collective struggle. The foundation of the class divide in the United
... Read more
Souls of W.E.B. Du Bois

by Alford A. Young, Jerry Gafio Watts, Manning Marable, Charles C. Lemert, Elizabeth Higginbotham ...

This work marks the recent passing of the 100th Anniversary of Du Bois' classic of African American literature. More than fifty events and celebrations were held in cities and universities around the country. It poignantly explores the relationship of Du Bois, the man, to his writings. It is written by expert team of authors including the prominent Manning Marable. "The Souls of W. E. B. Du Bois" ... Read more

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This work marks the recent passing of the 100th Anniversary of Du Bois' classic of African American literature. More than fifty events and celebrations were held in cities and universities around the country. It poignantly explores the relationship of Du Bois, the man, to his writings. It is written by expert team of authors including the prominent Manning Marable. "The Souls of W. E. B. Du Bois"
... Read more

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