How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing texts that has not lost its currency or relevance-even 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 patriarchy-personally 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 prsented with a new foreword by Leith Mullings.