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

"This book records the respective histories of the different social strata within Black political economy and society, from the political Brahmins of the elite to the industrial working class. The methodology is sociological; the questions raised political and economic; the style polemical; the goal: to present a critique of the strengths and contradictions that comprise Black American labor and life, with the purpose of destroying the process of underdevelopment that has imprisoned us for almost four centuries."-Manning Marable