Manning Marable

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Manning Marable (b. 13 May 1950 in Dayton, Ohio) is a prominent African-American political scholar. He holds the position of Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at Columbia University, where he founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He has published widely, and is politically active in a variety of progressive causes. His current project is a biography of the black rights activist Malcolm X.

[edit] Major works

  • The Great Wells of Democracy (2003)
  • Freedom: The Meaning of Race in American Life (with Leith Mullings and Sophie Spencer-Wood, 2002)
  • Black Leadership (1998)
  • Black Liberation in Conservative America (1997)
  • Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Resistance, and Radicalism (1996)
  • Beyond Black and White (1995)
  • Race, Reform and Rebellion (1991)
  • How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (1983)
  • Let Nobody Turn Us Around (2000)