A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X

A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X
AuthorJared Ball, Todd Steven Burroughs
SubjectMalcolm X
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherBlack Classic Press
Publication date
October 12, 2012 (paperback)
Publication placeUnited States
Pages308
ISBN978-1-57478-049-9

A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X is a collection of essays related to Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable. It is edited by Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs.[1]

Ball has stated that Marable's book “is a corporate product, a simple commodity to be traded, but for more than money; it is a carefully constructed ideological assault on history, on radical politics, on historical and cultural memory, on the very idea of revolution.”[2]

Notes

  1. ^ "A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X - J.Ball and T. Burroughs". Black Classic Press. April 7, 2011. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  2. ^ "Attempted ivory tower assassination of Malcolm X: an interview wit’ Jared Ball, editor of ‘A Lie of Re-Invention’" SF Bayview: National Black Newspaper, (10-21-2012): http://sfbayview.com/2012/attempted-ivory-tower-assassination-of-malcolm-x-an-interview-wit-jared-ball-editor-of-a-lie-of-re-invention/


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