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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
Manning Marable
Pages: 353Edition: Classics Series, Volume 4
ISBN: 0-89608-580-5
Format: cloth
Release Date: 1999-01-01
This book is also available in paper
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is a classic study of racism and class in the United States. It has become a standard text for courses in African-American politics and history and has been central to the education of thousands of political activists since the 1980s, selling more than 30,000 copies in its first edition.
In this new, updated edition, 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 was published. One-third of the book is all new material, and Marable has updated all of the tables and charts with the latest data on African-American poverty, health, employment, education, and spending, as well as other demographics.
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
Manning Marable
Click here to view Manning Marable's full Author PageManning 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).