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Manning Marable

Manning Marable (b. 13 May 1950 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University.^[1] He founded and directs the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He has authored several texts and is active in a progressive political causes. In 2008 he was working on a biography of the black rights activist Malcolm X, entitled Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.^[2]

Marable was elected Chair of Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS),^[3] the incorporated non-profit arm of Students for a Democratic Society. He sits on the Board of Directors for the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN), a non-profit coalition of public figures working to utilize hip-hop as an agent for social change.^[4] He is also a member of the New York Legislature's Amistad Commission, created to review state curriculum regarding the slave trade..^[5]

It was reported in June 2004 by activist group Racism Watch that Marable had called for immediate action to be taken to end the U.S. military's use of a book called "The Arab Mind" which was written by Raphael Patai.^[6]

In a January 2008 column entitled, "Barack Obama's Problem – And Ours",^[7] Marable endorsed Senator Barack Obama's bid for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.^[8]

Writings

• Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2010)
• The Great Wells of Democracy (2003)
• Freedom: The Meaning of Race in American Life (with Leith Mullings and Sophie Spencer-Wood, 2002)
• Let Nobody Turn Us Around (2000)
• Black Leadership (1998)
• Black Liberation in Conservative America (1997)
• Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Resistance, and Radicalism (1996)
• Beyond Black and White (1995)
• On Malcolm X: His Message & Meaning (1992)
• Race, Reform and Rebellion (1991)
• How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (1983)

References

1. ^ https://directory.columbia.edu/people/search?filter.searchTerm=Manning+Marable
2. ^ http://www.democracynow.org/2007/5/21/manning_marable_on_malcolm_x_a
3. ^ http://antiauthoritarian.net/NLN/?p=179
4. ^ http://www.hsan.org/Content/main.aspx?pageid=10
5. ^ http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20081229/NEWS01/812290333/1002/NEWS
6. ^ PCDC Edu - 2004 Racism Watch Calls for Action to End Use of Anti-Arab Books by the U.S. Government
7. ^ http://www.blackcommentator.com/267/267_along_the_color_line_obama.html
8. ^ Marable, Manning (January 2008) "Barack Obama's Problem - And Ours." Mannignmarable.net. (Retrieved 11-12-2008.)

External links

• Manning Marable's faculty page