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How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial future
Basic Books
January 2006
266 pages
ISBN: 0465043895
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A leading scholar
"takes back" African-American history from the textbook
writers and
Afrocentric mythmakers-and shows how the stories we tell
about our past
can help shape our future
With a fresh look at the enduring legacy of such familiar
figures as
Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and W. E.
B. Du Bois,
Manning Marable-one of the most important black scholars to
emerge
since the civil rights movement-brings the past alive for a
new
generation. Interweaving history with tales from his own
teaching
life-establishing the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where
Malcolm X
was murdered, as an historical institute, or mobilizing
students to
vote as they learn about the Freedom Summer of 1964-Marable
connects
today's social issues with the tribulations and triumphs of
yesterday.
Marable's perspective on the significance of these great
lives lays the
groundwork for his inclusive vision of "living history"-one
that
challenges the antiquated notions of African-American
history as
something separate from American history. Here the story of
the slave
counts as much as that of the master. Living Black
History will
empower readers with an understanding of our collective
past and the
knowledge that each day we-average citizens-are "makers" of
our own
American history.
About the Author
Manning Marable is
Professor of History, Political Science and Public Policy
at Columbia
University, where he also serves as the founding director
of the
Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He has
published
nineteen books, including The Autobiography of Medgar
Evers.
His column "Along the Color Line" appears in more than 400
publications
throughout the United States and the world. He regularly
appears on
"Today," "Charlie Rose," "ABC Weekend News," Fox Network
News, NPR, and
the BBC. Marable lives in New York City.
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