Мэннинг Марабл – лучшие книги

Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has reshaped perceptions of one of America's great revolutionary thinkers. This volume, the first collection of major documents addressing Malcolm X in decades, features never-before-published material, including articles from major newspapers and underground presses, oral histories, police reports, and FBI files, to shine a brighter light on Malcolm's life and times. Conceived as both a companion to the biography and a standalone volume, and assembled by Marable and his key researcher, Garrett Felber, prior to Marable's untimely death, The Portable Malcolm X Reader presents an invaluable portrait of Malcolm X.

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Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins' bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-actualized, independent African American man. In death he became a broad symbol of both resistance and reconciliation for millions around the world.

Manning Marable's new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement. Filled with new information and shocking revelations that go beyond the Autobiography, Malcolm X unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America, from the rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties. Reaching into Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents' activism through his own engagement with the Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the never-before-told true story of his assassination. Malcolm X will stand as the definitive work on one of the most singular forces for social change, capturing with revelatory clarity a man who constantly strove, in the great American tradition, to remake himself anew.

Книга выполнена в жанре художественной биографии. Произведение рисует очень живой и яркий портрет Малькома Икс, борца за права и свободы чернокожих жителей Америки. Мальком был убит в 1965 году. Его жизненный путь проходил от наркомана и мелкого уличного преступника до благородного священника, мученика и ярого гуманиста. Всю жизнь семья Малькома, да и он сам подвергалась самым яростным гонениям со стороны расистов. Он посвятил всю свою жизнь тому, чтобы такого не повторялось с другими чернокожими людьми. Книга раскрывает все самые мелкие детали биографии этого великого человека, его переживания, его отношения с друзьями и с недругами, с политиками и с простыми людьми. Малькома Икс называли главой «Черных пантер», книга затрагивает аспекты работы этой организации. Книга «Мальком Икс» излагает все четко и конкретно, однако язык писателя очень живой и понятный.
Произведение понравится не только историкам и борцам за человеческие права. Она заинтересует всех читателей, которые хотят узнать новые, а главное правдивые факты и почитать интересное и занимательное произведение. Так же творение американского писателя является напоминание всем нашим современникам о судьбе одного из самых ярких исторических деятелей, который отдал всю свою жизнь для того, чтобы хоть немного изменить наш мир.

For the first time, the life of Medgar Evers as told through his speeches, letters, and papers, in a volume edited by his widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, and scholar Manning Marable On the evening of June 12, 1963-the day President John F. Kennedy

Highly acclaimed dissection of the “new racism,” from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time Many in the US, including Barack Obama, have called for a ‘post-racial’ politics: yet race still divides the country politically, economically and socially. In this highly acclaimed work, Manning Marable rejects both liberal inclusionist strategies and the separatist politics of the likes of Louis Farrakhan. Beginning by looking back at African-American politics and the fight against racism of the recent past, outlining a trenchant analysis of the ‘New Racial Domain’ that must be uprooted, he argues powerfully for a ‘transformationist’ strategy, which retains a distinctive black cultural identity but draws together all the poor and exploited in a united struggle against oppression.