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Name: A Lie of Reinvention
Author: Jared A. Ball

A Lie of Reinvention compiles essays from established and emerging Black scholars, activists, and civil‑rights figures who critique Manning Marable’s controversial biography of Malcolm X, "A Life of Reinvention." The editors, Jared A. Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs, present arguments that Marable’s work contains historical inaccuracies, ideological misinterpretations, and conjecture, and that it undermines accurate scholarship on the life and legacy of African American icon Malcolm X. The volume draws on voices ranging from A. Peter Bailey and Bill Strickland to Mumia Abu‑Jamal, Kali Akuno, Kamau Franklin, and Amiri Baraka, offering a nuanced, interdisciplinary perspective on nationalistic and civil‑rights historiography.

First publish date: 2015

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography

Authors: Jared A. Ball

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