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The marble challenge: re-imagine the past
Ebony, Jan, 2006 by Lynette R. Holloway
On the heels of the passing of Rosa Parks, "the mother of the Civil Rights Movement," comes a relevant Black history book by the scholar Manning Marable. In his new book, LIVING BLACK HISTORY: HOW RE-IMAGINING THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN PAST CAN REMAKE AMERICA'S RACIAL FUTURE (Basic Civitas/Perseus, $26), the leading scholar explains how the recitation of stories from our past can reshape our future.
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Marable, who is a professor of history, political science and public policy at Columbia University, takes a new look at the historical context of civil rights leaders such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, and W. E. B. Du Bois, and offers a new perspective on their enduring legacies. Marable, the co-editor of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MEDGAR EVERS and author of THE GREAT WELLS OF DEMOCRACY (both Basic Civitas titles), examines the lives of these great men in light of those who came before them. He notes that the destruction of Black heritage is often the result of an ideological struggle. Additionally, Marable offers powerful analysis on the role of the activist intellectual in the making of modern history: "A half century ago, Du Bois, Malcolm X and [NAACP General Counsel Robert L.] Carter, in very different ways, all struggled to overthrow the immoral regime of Jim Crow segregation and the destructive psychological sense of dependency and inferiority it engendered among their people" He writes in the preface: "The challenges today are different. Instead of legal segregation, we are confronted internationally with a growing 'global apartheid,' and domestically with a 'color-blind racism.' Both are defined by mass unemployment, mass incarceration, and mass disfranchisement."
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