By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented

by Herb Boyd (Editor), Ron Daniels (Editor), Maulana Karenga (Editor), Haki R Madhubuti (Editor)

Overview

Compiled as a response to Manning Marable's controversial new biography of Malcolm X, more than 30 noted scholars from the African American community offer their opinions on Marable's portrayal of the man whose short life still inspires speculation of what might have been.
Contributors include: Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Abdul Alkalimat, Molefi Kete Asante, Rick Ayers, Bryonn Bain, Amiri Baraka, Aslaku Ber-hanu, Amir Bey, Todd Steven Burroughs, Ta-Nehisi Coates, William Jelani Cobb, Karl Evanzz, Iyaluua and Herman Ferguson, Bill Flectcher, Jr., Glen Ford, Rhone Fraser, Wil Haygood, Kelly Harris, Errol A. Henderson, Fred Hord, Peter James Hudson, Ezra Hyland, Regina Jennings, Peniel E. Joseph, Clyde Ledbetter Jr., Fred Logan, Kevin McGruder, Starla Muhammad, Nell Irvin Painter, Imani Perry, Gregory J. Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Diane D. Turner, Ilyasah Shabazz

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780883783368
Publisher:	Third World Press
Publication date:	02/28/2012
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

2022-11-29
A visit to an undersea research lab off the Florida Keys plunges siblings Ezzy and Luke into life-threatening discoveries of environmental malfeasance in this third series entry.

Considering recent experiences in the Galápagos and Greenland, 14-year-old Ezzy is hardly surprised when she and her more adventurous 12-year-old brother, Luke, find themselves involved in two potentially hazardous mysteries, one involving odd local changes in water chemistry and massive blooms of green algae. The other (and more immediately deadly threat) is scary encounters with really big and highly aggressive specimens of venomous, invasive lionfish on the reef. In a double investigation that leads to a resort with iffy wastewater disposal practices and an experimental genetics lab run by an unprincipled marine biologist, Prager, a marine scientist herself, folds in plenty of suspense as well as real places, actual environmental issues, and personal experiences of marine wonders on which she expands in a substantial afterword. The siblings and their widowed father present as White, but to other characters the author attributes a range of skin colors suggesting racial diversity. Readers need not be familiar with previous entries to enjoy this latest installment. The book concludes with websites pointing readers to youth-friendly organizations working in ocean conservation as well as those offering guidance on marine science careers.

Further breathlessly paced escapades, well stocked with moments of terror and undersea wonders. (map) (Adventure. 9-12)

Table of Contents

Opening Words

Malcolm Sonia Sanchez xi

Publisher's Statement: Actually an Obligation Haki R. Madhubuti xiii

Introduction Herb Boyd xxv

Laying the Groundwork

When All is Said … Malcolm's Legacy is Secure Ron Daniels 3

The Meaning and Measure of Malcolm X: Critical Remembrance and Rightful Reading Maulana Karenga 10

Response, Message and Meaning

The Meaning of Manning Marable's Biography of Malcolm X Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid 29

On Manning's Malcolm X Mumia Abu-Jamal 34

Rethinking Malcolm Means First Learning how to Think: What was Marable Thinking? And Why? Abdul Alkalimat 36

An Afrocentric Take on Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Molefi Kete Asante 51

Malcolm X Still Inspires Today Rick Ayers 60

Manning Marable's Malcolm X Book Amiri Baraka 68

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable, A Look at the Book Amir Bey 76

The Fault Lies not in our Stars, But in our Biographers: Minutes to Midnight, Manning Marable Succumbs Todd Steven Burroughs 81

The Legacy of Malcolm X Ta-Nehisi Coates 87

Marable, Redefining Biography Jelani Cobb 97

Paper Tiger Karl Evanzz 101

Evolution of a Black Nationalist Revolutionary Iyaluua Herman Ferguson 107

Manning Marable and the Malcolm X Biography Controversy: A Response to Critics African World Bill Fletcher Jr. 121

Dragging Malcolm X to Obamaland Glen Ford 136

Marable's Revolutionary Malcolm Rhone Fraser 142

Manning Marable: Humanizing Malcolm or Denigrating Legacies? Kelly Harris 149

Manning Marable's Malcolm X Wil Haygood..... 159

A Toothless Pursuit of a Revolutionary's Truths: Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Errol Henderson 163

Malcolm X: The Man and Our Times Fred Hord 178

Unearthing Meaning in Marable's Malcolm X Peter lames Hudson 188

Manning Marable's Regurgitation on the Life and Memory of Malcolm X Ezra Hyland 191

Is Imitation Truly the Mother of Invention? Regina Jennings 200

Rescuing Malcolm X From His Calculated Myths Peniel E. Joseph 207

Malcolm, Charisma and Ancestry Clyde Ledbetter Jr 217

Reinforcing Barricades Fred Logan 224

On Malcolm, Ourselves Kevin McGruder 230

A Response Starla Muhammad 235

Revising Perspectives on Malcolm X Nell Irvin Painter 238

A Review of Manning Marable's Malcolm X Imani Perry 241

By Any Means Gregory J. Reed Bryonn Bain 244

We Declare Our Right to be a Human Being: Malcolm X, "A Life of Reclamation" Michael Simanga 257

Malcolm X: Reinvention or African-centered Service and Sacrifice Diane D. Turner Aslaku Berhanu 263

Last Word

On My Father Ilyasah Shabazz 275

Contributors 278