The scourge of racism haunts the United States as persistently as it ever did. Life expectancy for black men is now below retirement age. Average black income is only 56 per cent of that earned by whites. In Washington DC, no less than 43 per cent of black men have been in prison or on parole, and this state of affairs is getting worse, not better. Black admissions to college education are falling, whilst admissions to prisons rise - blacks compise two-thirds of the US prison population while making up only 13 per cent of the entire population. Faced with a renascent right and an enormous racist legacy, the black struggle, this book argues, has to move beyond existing strategies. The politics of black nationalism, eschewing positions within established structures in order to protect distinctive black political and cultural forms, no longer measures up to the task. But neither do inclusionist strategies which, by accepting symbolic representations of blacks within them, fail to challenge endemically racist hierarchies. What is required is a transformatist approach that retains distinctive black cultural identity whilst uprooting the language and logic of inferiority; and seeks to restructure power relations between groups and classes in such a way as to make race potentially irrelevant as a social force. This book opens with an autobiography describing growing up amidst the racism of middle-America in the 1950s. Manning Marable's credentials for shifting the debate in the black community have as much to do with shared experience as academic reputation. They underpin his concluding passionate plea for an affirmative action which is transformationist, drawing together minority groups into a majority of the poor and exploited, a majority which can throw open the portals of power and govern in its own name. Manning Marable is the author of "How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America", "Black American Politics", "African and Caribbean Politics" and "Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America".
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Vital reading for anyone concerned with African-American politics today. (Jesse Jackson )
This book is important reading for activists and theorists alike, and for all of us who want to be both. (Angela Y. Davis )
Marable argues tirelessly not just for better days for black America, but for Americans in general. (The Progressive ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
This book is important reading for activists and theorists alike, and for all of us who want to be both. (Angela Y. Davis )
Marable argues tirelessly not just for better days for black America, but for Americans in general. (The Progressive ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Manning Marable is M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies, and Professor of Public Affairs, History and Political Science at Columbia University in New York City. Marable has written, edited or contributed to twenty-seven books, including How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (1983), Black American Politics (1985), Black Leadership (1998), The Great Wells of Democracy (2002), and Living Black History (2006). He is currently completing a major new biography of Malcolm X.
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This review is from: Beyond Black and White: Rethinking Race in American Politics and Society (Hardcover)
I recently reread this collection. Marable here grapples with the problems of black political thought and action in the post-civil rights era. After the relatively clearcut struggle against Jim Crow, what direction should black politics take? Through examinations of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, Ben Chavis's brief leadership of the NAACP, the confirmation of Clarence Thomas, and other episodes of the 1980s and 1990s, Marable handles issues of race and class with sophistication and a calm, even-handed delivery. He is particularly astute on emergent class divisions within black America and their political implications. Highly recommended.
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