Manning Marable

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Manning Marable (2007)

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 professor of history , political science and African American studies . Marable was one of the leading exponents of black history and a left-wing critic of the American social institutions and race relations .

Life

Marable grew up in Dayton. His father and mother both graduated from Central State University , an HBCU in nearby Wilberforce. He 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 he received his Masters in 1972 . His Ph.D. in American History he got in 1976 from the University of Maryland . From 1980 to 1982 he was Senior Research Associate of Africana Studies at Cornell University .

Marabel set up ethnic studies programs at various colleges , including the Race Relations Institute at Fisk University , where he was Professor of History and Economics from 1982 to 1983, and the Africana and Hispanic Studies Program at Colgate University , the first of which In addition to his work as a professor of sociology, he was director from 1983 to 1986. Marable now taught ethnic studies at Ohio State University , where he was chairman of the Department of Black Studies from 1987 to 1989 , and from 1989 to 1993 at the University of Colorado in Boulder .

Most recently, Marable started working at Columbia University in 1993 , where he taught as a professor of African-American Studies and history. He was also director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies from 1993 to 2003 and founded the Center for Contemporary Black History .

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

Marable was married to Leith Mullings , who teaches anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the co-author of several of his books. Both had three children and two stepchildren. In July 2010, Marable had to undergo a double lung transplant as a result of a long-standing sarcoid disease. In early March 2011, he was hospitalized with 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)
  • Let Nobody Turn Us Around (2000) with Leith Mullings
  • Dispatches from the Ebony Tower (2000)
  • Freedom: A Photographic History of the African-American Freedom Struggle (2002) 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)
  • WEB 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) with Leith Mullings
  • 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 .
selection
  • Published by Russell Rickford: The Manning Marable Reader . Paradigm Publishers, Boulder, Colorado, USA 2011, ISBN 978-1-594518614 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manning Marable, Historian and Social Critic, Dies at 60
  2. ↑ New Speculation about the Murder of Malcolm X , Spiegel Online , April 2, 2011
  3. ↑ Manning Marable, African-American Studies Scholar, Has Died at 60 , April 1, 2011, Arts Beat ( The New York Times )
personal data
SURNAME Marable, Manning
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marable, William Manning (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Dayton , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2011
Place of death Manhattan , New York City