Black Liberation in Conservative America
Manning Marable

Pages: 286
ISBN: 0-89608-559-7
Format: paper




A bold collection of essays from Manning Marable, one of America’s most prominent scholar/activists, Black Liberation in Conservative America defines the crises and challenges confronting black America on the eve of the 21st century.

Marable chronicles the major debates, issues, and conflicts that have defined the politics of race, class, and gender in the 1990s, giving particular attention to the social and economic factors that have contributed to a growing climate of political conservatism: the urban crisis of expanding poverty and unemployment; reductions in spending for health care, education, and housing; and the globalization of capitalism and declines in real wages for working people.

Black Liberation in Conservative America analyzes the internal divisions within contemporary African-American communities, from schisms in the NAACP to the controversial Million Man March. Marable argues that the upsurge in black nationalist separatism and the increasing influence of Louis Farrakhan reveals a black conservative reaction incapable of advancing the struggles of African Americans. From a political perspective rooted in radical democracy and social transformation, Marable’s powerful commentaries call for a renewal of activism and mass protest against a system of unequal power and privilege.

Book Formats:
Black Liberation in Conservative America (cloth)
Other books by Manning Marable

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (cloth)
Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
Manning Marable
Released 1999-01-01
This classic work by Marable examines developments in the political economy of racism in the United States.


Praise
“Argues that the future of black liberation will have to be fought out on activist terrain. This work offers invaluable theoretical and practical guidance to scholars and activists alike.”
—Angela Y. Davis

“Calls for a new paradigm in which working-class and middle-class Americans who have been on the losing end of major economic changes in the country and the world need to unite to stop the increasing maldistribution of wealth.”
—CHOICE

“[A]n extremely disturbing and thought-provoking book. It is disturbing because of the timely yet unpleasant social issues it addresses, thought-provoking because of the perspective Marable brings to bear in his analyses of the issues.”
—Counterpoise


Manning Marable is Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York City , where he lives. He is one of the most widely read black progressive authors in the country. Marable’s political commentary series, “Along the Color Line,” appears in more than 320 publications internationally.

Dr. Marable is featured frequently in the national and international media as an expert on the history and politics of race in the United States . He regularly appears on media programs such as the NBC “Today Show,” ABC “Weekend News,” Fox Network News, the “Charlie Rose” show, BBC television and radio, Japanese television, National Public Radio, and the Pacifica Radio Network. Dr. Marable also donates much of his time fundraising and speaking on behalf of prisoners’ rights, civil rights, labor, faith-based institutions, and many social justice organizations.

His seminal work is How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America. Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!, writes, “For those of us who came of political age in the 1980s, Manning Marable’s How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America was one of our bibles. Published during the cold winter of Reaganism, he introduced a new generation of Black activists/thinkers to class and gender struggles within Black communities, the political economy of incarceration, the limitations of Black capitalism, and the nearly forgotten vision of what a socialist future might look like. Two decades later, Marable’s urgent and hopeful voice is as relevant as ever.”

He is also the author of Black Liberation in Conservative America (South End Press, 1997), Black Leadership (Columbia University Press), Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics (Verso), and Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Resistance, and Radicalism (Westview).


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