How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

Table of Contents

Preface How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: A Critical Reasessment
Introduction to the First Edition

Part 1 The Black Majority: The Domestic Periphery
1 The Crisis of the Black Working Class
2 The Black Poor: Highest Stage of Underdevelopment
3 Groundings with My Sisters: Patriarch and the Exploitation of Black Women
4 Black Prisoners and Punishment in a Racist/Capitalist State

Part 2 The Black Elite: The Domestic Core
5 Black Capitalism: Entrepreneurs, Consumers, and the Historical Evolution of the Black Market
6 Black Brahmins: The Underdevelopment of Black Political Leadership
7 The Ambiguous Politics of the Black Church
8 The Destruction of Black Education

Part 3 A Question of Genocide
9 The Meaning of Racist Violence in Late Capitalism
10 Conclusion: Towards a Socialist America

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Praise

"Manning Marable examines developments in the political economy of racism in the United States and assesses shifts in the American political terrain since the first edition....He is one of the most widely read Black progressive authors in the country."
—Black Employment Journal

"The reissue of Manning Marable’s How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America confirms that this is a classic work of political history and social criticism. Unfortunately, Marable’s blistering insights into racial injustice and economic inequality remain depressingly relevant. But the good news is that Marable’s prescient analysis—and his eloquent and self-critical preface to this new edition—will prove critical in helping us to think through and conquer the oppressive forces that remain."
—Michael Eric Dyson, author of I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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 late...

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