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MANNING MARABLE
Dr. Marable has authored and edited nearly twenty books and anthologies. His works include: editor, Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An African-American Anthology, with co-editor Leith Mullings (2000); editor, Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience (2000); Black Leadership (1998); Black Liberation in Conservative America (1997); Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Radicalism and Resistance (1996); Beyond Black and White (1995); The Crisis of Color and Democracy (1992); Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990 (1991); African and Caribbean Politics (1987); W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat (1986); Black American Politics (1985); How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (1983) and Blackwater: Historical Studies (1981). Dr. Marable’s books and anthologies-in-progress include: Race and Democracy in America (New York: Basic Books); editor, The Columbia Reader of African American History (New York: Columbia University Press) with associate editors John McMillian and Nishani Frazier; and editor, No Easy Victories: An Anthology of Black Radicalism Since 1968 (London: Verso), with co-editor Leith Mullings and associate editor Johanna Fernandez. He has also written over two hundred scholarly articles in academic journals and edited volumes over his teaching career beginning in 1974. In 2001, Dr. Marable initiated the "Malcolm X Project" at Columbia University. The research project includes the development of a Malcolm X e-course; an electronic version of Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X; editor, Malcolm X: A Political Reader (Bloomington: Indiana University Press); editor, Malcolm X in the Black Imagination: A Cultural Studies Anthology; and a biography of Malcolm X. In January 1999, Dr. Marable initiated Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society. This quarterly journal examines key theoretical issues within black America, Africa and the Caribbean. Souls is edited by Dr. Marable, published by the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, and distributed throughout the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Marable is perhaps the most widely read intellectual within the African-American community. Since 1976, he has written "Along the Color Line," a syndicated political affairs series that regularly appears in over four hundred black-owned and black-oriented mass publications throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom, the Caribbean and India. Dr. Marable is featured frequently in the national and international media as an expert on the history and politics of race in the United States. He regularly appears on media programs such as CNN’s "Talk-Back Live," C-SPAN, the NBC "Today Show," ABC "Weekend News," Fox Network News, the "Charlie Rose" show, BBC television and radio, Japanese television, National Public Radio, and the Pacifica Radio Network. He donates much of his time fundraising and speaking on behalf of prisoners’ rights, civil rights, labor, faith-based institutions, and many social justice organizations. Dr. Marable also lectures annually in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining Institute for
Research in African-American Studies
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Manning
Marable is one of America’s most influential historians
and political interpreters of the black experience. Since 1993,
Dr. Marable has been Professor of History and Political Science
at Columbia University in New York City, where he also serves as
the founding Director of the Institute for Research in African-American
Studies. Born in 1950, Dr. Marable was previously the founding director
of Colgate University’s Africana and Hispanic Studies Program,
from 1983 to 1986. He was Chairman of Black Studies at Ohio State
University, from 1987 to 1989, and subsequently was Professor of
Ethnic Studies, History and Political Science at the University
of Colorado at Boulder, from 1989 to 1993.