Malcolm X was a country bumpkin who became a zoot-suited entertainer; who became a petty criminal; and, who became a self-taught intellectual. This title chronicles these many incarnations of Malcolm X, describing the multiple masks he donned over the years.[...]
A new look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, Manning Marable Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, "Malcolm X: A Life of""Reinvention," has already begun to reshape perceptions of one of America's great revolutionary thinkers. This volume, the fi[...]
P> "An extraordinary portrait of a man and his time. . . .A masterpiece."
-"San Francisco Chronicle" The late 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 startli[...]
In this attractive South End Press Classics edition, featuring a new preface, hooks maintains that mainstream feminism's reliance on white, middle-class, and professional spokeswomen obscures the centrality of women of color and poor women in the movement for women's liberation. About the Author[...]
A Lie of Reinvention is a response to Manning Marable s biography of Malcolm X, A Life of Reinvention. Marable s book was controversially acclaimed by some as his magna opus. At the same time, it was denounced and debated by others as a worthless read full of conjecture, errors, and without any new [...]
This fully revised and updated edition brings this landmark study of contemporary Black American history, culture, society, and politics firmly into the Twenty-First century. "Race, Reform, and Rebellion" traces the divergent elements of political, social, and moral reform in non-white America since[...]
The Manning Marable Reader.
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 h[...]
Barack Obama and the African-American Empowerment examines the evolution of black leadership and politics since the Civil Rights Movement. It looks at the phenomenon of Barack Obama, from his striking emergence as a successful candidate for the Illinois State Senate to President of the United States[...]
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 Mar[...]