How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society

Marable offers profound insight into the deeply intertwined problems of race and class in the United States historically and today.

Author: Manning Marable
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 09/20/2019
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9781642591149
ISBN10: 1642591149
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- Political Science | Political Economy
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies

About the Author
Manning Marable 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 is a distinguished professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center CUNY. She is 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 has a strong commitment to producing scholarship that addresses timely social issues, is undertaken in collaboration with research subjects, and seeks to empower communities through knowledge.