How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

"How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America. is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing texts that has not lost its currency or relevanceeven after three decades. Its provocative treatise on the ravages of late capitalism, state violence, incarceration, and patriarchy on the life chances and struggles of black working-class men and women shaped an entire generation, directing our energies to the terrain of the prison-industrial complex, anti-racist work, labor organizing, alternatives to racial capitalism, and challenging patriarchypersonally and politically. " —Robin D. G. Kelley. "In this new edition of his classic text. Marable can challenge a new generation to find solutions to the problems that constrain the present but not our potential to seek and define a better future. "Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "[A] prescient analysis. " —Michael Eric Dyson. How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America. is a classic study of the intersection of racism and class in the United States. It has become a standard text for courses in American politics and history, and has been central to the education of thousands of political activists since the 1980s. This edition is presented with a new foreword by Leith Mullings.