A review by wai
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society by Manning Marable

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

Even with this having been written in 1983 and no revisions made, the continued relevancy and seeming prescience of this book are a bit unsettling and disheartening. There are a lot of parallels between Manning's criticism of Reagan and current (2020) criticism of Trump. It is difficult and slow going but absolutely necessary for everyone who is pushing for an antiracist, antioppressive future to read and understand how imperative the dismantling of capitalism is for racial justice and as a result all forms of social justice to really occur.