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Manning Marable

Manning Marable (1950–2011) was a prolific historian and social critic who founded the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. His many books included Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, which was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History.

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At first reading, “Beyond the Civil Rights Industry” appears to be a reasonable, if somewhat neo-conservative, analysis of the political and strategic contradictions within the current generation of liberal African American leadership...
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