Manning Marable

Dr. Manning Marable "is one of America's most influential and widely read scholars. Since 1993, Dr. Marable has been Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York City. For ten years, Dr. Marable was founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, from 1993 to 2003. Under Dr. Marable's leadership, the Institute became one of the nation's most prestigious centers of scholarship on the black American experience. In 2002, Dr. Marable established the Center for Contemporary Black History (CCBH) at Columbia University, an advanced research and publications center that examines black leadership and politics, culture and society. CCBH produces Souls, a quarterly academic journal of African-American Studies, which is published and distributed internationally by Taylor and Francis Publishers." 

Affiliations

 * Director, Hip-Hop Summit Action Network
 * Advisory Board (2006), Progressive Media Project
 * Editorial Board, The Black Commentator
 * Advisory Board, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
 * Advisory Board, Left Forum
 * Board of Associate and Advisory Editors, International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
 * Editorial Board, New Labor Forum

Criticism

 * Jared Ball and Todd S. Burroughs (Eds.), Manning Marable’s False Reinvention of Malcolm X: Black Writers Respond (Black Classic Press, 2011).

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