Black Liberation in Conservative America

Manning Marable is one of America's most influential and widely read scholars. Since 1993, he has been Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University. From 1993 to 2003, he was also founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia. Dr. Marable is the author of How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (2nd ed, Pluto Press, 2000) and, most recently, of Great Wells of Democracy (Basic Books, 2003). W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) is widely considered one of the most influential African Americans before the Civil Rights movement. Born only six years after emancipation, he was active well into his nineties as a writer, critic and social scientist. Du Bois's contribution to the civil rights movement included co-founding the Niagara Movement, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Pan-African Congress.

A bold new collection of essays by one of America's most prominent scholar/activists, Black Liberation in Conservative America defines the crises and challenges confronting black America on the eve of the 21st century.