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. He was recently elected Chair of Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS), the incorporated non-profit arm of Students for a Democratic Society. He sits on the Board of Directors for the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN), a non-profit coalition of prominent public figures dedicated to utilizing hip hop as an agent for social change.

[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)
Let Nobody Turn Us Around (2000)
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)