How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

Manning Marable was an professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University. Marable authored fifteen books including Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for History.

“Manning Marable never stopped wrestling with this landmark volume, and neither should we. Ranging widely across time, spheres, and data, this work, at once polemical and analytical, continues to offer an account of inequality at the intersection of class, gender, and race that has yet to be matched. Some three decades on, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America remains a book that provokes, informs, and motivates.” —Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University“A cohesive portrait of black America.” —Cornel WestPRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR:“Manning was an unflinching and breathtakingly prolific scholar whose commitments to racial, economic, gender, and international justice were unparalleled. … There are two generations of African-American scholars who will remember him as much for the mentor he was to us as for the research legacy he leaves. … When I think of Manning himself it is as a great well — possessing reserves of energy, intellect and commitment I have never before witnessed.” —Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC“A groundbreaking historian … one of America’s truest public intellectuals.” —John Nichols, The Nation

• PrefaceHow Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America A Critical AssessmentIntroduction to the First EditionPart 1 The Black MajorityChapter 1 The Crisis of the Black Working ClassChapter 2 The Black PoorChapter 3 Grounding with My SistersChapter 4 Black Prisoners and Punishment in a Racist/Capitalist StatePart 2 The Black EliteChapter 5 Black CapitalismChapter 6 Black BrahminsChapter 7 The Ambiguous Politics of the Black ChurchChapter 8 The Destruction of Black EducationPart 3 A Question of GenocideChapter 9 The Meaning of Racist Violence in Late CapitalismChapter 10 Conclusion: Towards a Socialist America