How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

Manning Marable (1950-2011) was a 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.Leith Mullings (1945-2020) was a distinguished professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center CUNY. She was an anthropologist, author, lecturer and educator. She served as president of the American Anthropological Association from 2011 to 2013. Much of her work focuses on the analysis of inequality and she has been involved in research projects in Africa, the United States and Latin America. Through the lens of feminist and critical race theory, she has analyzed a variety of topics including kinship, representation, gentrification, health disparities and social movements. Mullings had a strong commitment to producing scholarship that addresses timely social issues, undertaken in collaboration with research subjects and sought to empower communities through knowledge. Her web site is: http://leithmullings.com.

• 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

“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