Constantly rewriting his own story, Malcolm X became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and eventually an icon, assassinated at the age of 39. The details of his life have long since calcified into a familiar narrative: his early years as a vagabond in Boston and New York, his conversion to Islam and subsequent rise to prominence as a militant advocate for black rights, his acrimonious split with the Nation of Islam, and ultimately his violent death at their hands. Yet this story, told and ...

Tra le figure importanti della storia americana del XX secolo, poche sono così complesse e controverse come quella di Malcolm X. Spacciatore, operaio, predicatore, leader politico, è infine diventato, dopo il suo assassinio, un’icona per intere generazioni. La nuova biografia di Malcolm scritta da Manning Marable è un evento. Frutto di vent’anni di indagini su documenti privati e pubblici a lungo coperti dal silenzio e di ostinate ricerche di tutti gli amici e compagni di Malcolm, ma anche...

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 historical amnesia. His activist passion and scholarly memory bring immediacy to the t...

Depuis sa mort, Malcolm X est devenu bien plus qu'un militant de la libération noire: son héritage et sa mémoire font l'objet de luttes acharnées. Prédicateur sectaire de la Nation of Islam, ou musulman orthodoxe converti à la tolérance, nationaliste noir ou révolutionnaire ouvert à toutes les alliances, ancien dealer, ex-prisonnier, partisan de l'autodéfense armée, dirigeant panafricain: dans les années, puis les décennies qui ont suivi sa mort, tout ou presque a été dit sur Malcolm X. De...

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist.Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins' bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and ...

Many in the US, including Barack Obama, have called for a 'post-racial' politics: yet race still divides the country politically, economically and socially.In this highly acclaimed work, Manning Marable rejects both liberal inclusionist strategies and the separatist politics of the likes of Louis Farrakhan. Beginning by looking back at African-American politics and the fight against racism of the recent past, outlining a trenchant analysis of the 'New Racial Domain' that must be upr...

"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 to the terrain of the prison-industrial complex, anti-racist work, labor organizing, a...

Pulitzerbelönad biografi om Malcolm X, som utsågs till årets bästa bok av bland andra New York Times, New Yorker, The Nation, Publishers Weekly och Washington PostMalcolm X är en av den amerikanska 1900-talshistoriens mest kontroversiella, komplexa, och inflytelserika ikoner. Manning Marables hyllade biografi har redan omformat bilden av landets kanske största förkämpe för social förändring och ger en levande skildring av ras- och klasskillnadernas USA. Malcolm...

'Marable's biography of Du Bois is the best so far available.' Dr. Herbert Aptheker, Editor, The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois 'Marable's excellent study focuses on the social thought of a major black American thinker who exhibited a 'basic coherence and unity' throughout a multifaceted career stressing cultural pluralism, opposition to social inequality, and black pride.' Library Journal Distinguished historian and social activist Manning Marable's book, W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Radical...

Through public appearances, radio and television interviews, and his many articles and books, Manning Marable has become one of America's most prominent commentators on race relations and African-American politics. Speaking Truth to Power brings together for the first time Marable's major writings on black politics, peace, and social justice.The book traces the changing role of race within the American political system since the Civil Rights Movement. It also charts the author's striking e...

This 100th Anniversary edition of Du Bois's most widely read book offers significant updates and advantages over all other editions of this classic of African American history. A new Introduction by Manning Marable, Du Bois biographer and eminent historian, puts The Souls of Black Folk into context for 21st Century readers and recounts Du Bois's life-long relationship with his text, which Du Bois continued to rework over many decades. A rarely seen 1953 Re-Introduction by Du Bois is includ...

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 later in some nearby bushes. Still, Beckwith remained free for over thirty years, until Evers's w...