Manning Marable

William Manning Marable ( born May 13, 1950 in Dayton, Ohio, † April 1, 2011 in Manhattan, New York City ) was an American historian. He was a high school teacher of history, political science and African American Studies. Marable was one of the leading exponents of black history and a leftist critic of American social institutions and race relations.

Life

Marable attended Earlham College in Richmond, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1971. He then continued his studies at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where in 1972 he received his master. His Ph.D. in American history he got in 1976 at the University of Maryland. From 1980 to 1982 he was a Senior Research Associate of Africana Studies at Cornell University.

Marabel called at various colleges ethnic studies programs to life, including the Race Relations Institute at Fisk University, where he was from 1982 to 1983 professor of history and economics, and the Africana and Hispanic Studies Program at Colgate University, as its first director, he a professor of sociology from 1983 to 1986 also acted alongside his work. Marable now taught ethnic studies at Ohio State University where he was from 1987 to 1989 Chairman of the Department of Black Studies was, and from 1989 to 1993 at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Last Marable was working at Columbia University since 1993, where he taught as a professor of African- American Studies and History. In addition, he was from 1993 to 2003 director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies and founded the Center for Contemporary Black History.

In addition to his teaching activities, Marable made ​​as the author name. Since obtaining his Ph.D., he wrote more than 275 articles in academic journals. His book The Crisis of Color and Democracy received in 1996 the award for Book of the Year of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. Posthumously appeared a few days after his death, his political biography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, on which he had worked around two decades and was the 2012 winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In addition, he wrote since 1976, the political column Along the Color Line, which has been published in more than 400 newspapers and journals worldwide.

Marable was married to Leith Mullings, teaches anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is co-author of several of his books. Both had three children and two stepchildren. In July 2010, Marable a double lung transplant had to undergo, which had become necessary as a result of long-standing sarcoidosis disease. In early March 2011, he was admitted to a hospital because of pneumonia. He died there on April 1, 2011.

Publications (selection)

  • How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (1983 )
  • Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1982 (1984 )
  • Black American Politics ( 1985)
  • Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990 (1991 )
  • On Malcolm X: His Message and Meaning (1992 )
  • Beyond Black and White: Race in America's Past, Present and Future ( 1995)
  • The Crisis of Color and Democracy (1995 )
  • Speaking Truth to Power (1996 )
  • Black Liberation in Conservative America ( 1997)
  • Black Leadership (1998)
  • Dispatches from the Ebony Tower (2000)
  • Freedom: A Photographic History of the African-American Freedom Struggle (2002) along with Leith Mullings and Sophie Spencer -Wood
  • 9/11: Racism in a Time of Terror (2002)
  • The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life (2003)
  • W. E. B. DuBois: Black Radical Democrat ( 2005)
  • The Autobiography of Medgar Evers ( 2005) with Myrlie Evers -Williams
  • Living Black History: How Reimagining the African - American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future ( 2006)
  • New social movements in the African diaspora (2009) Leith Mullings with
  • Barack Obama and African American Empowerment (2009) with Kristen Clarke
  • Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader ( 2011)
  • Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, Penguin Press, New York 2011 ISBN 978-0-670022205.
  • Edited by Russell Rickford: The Manning Marable Reader. Paradigm Publishers, Boulder, Colorado, USA 2011, ISBN 978-1-594518614.
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