The book isn’t new but this interview is! We talked about the politics of Malcolm X historiography, memory, and ideas even in 2020. Jared A. Ball and Todd Burroughs Dec 22, 2020 A Lie of Reinvention Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X 2012 This is part of our Special Series on Malcolm X and Black Nationalism. In…
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by ANDREW STEWART At the outset, it is impossible to deny the vital role that the volume A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marrable’s Malcolm X (2012, Black Classics Press), edited by Drs. Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs, played in the formation of this article. In 2011, Manning Marable, a legendary Marxian African American Studies scholar at…
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“This collection of essays by Black scholars and activists, edited by Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs, is a critical response to Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Though lauded by many, Marable’s book was debated and denounced by others as a flawed biography, full of conjecture and errors and…
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