''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
Jared A. Ball (born 1971 in Washington, D.C.) is a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Additionally, he is an author, radio host and mixtape radio producer. In the 2008 presidentia ...
and Todd Steven Burroughs.
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.”
["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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External links
Black Classic BooksBlack Agenda Report
2012 non-fiction books
Works about Malcolm X
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