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Deciphers the history of “Black capitalist” rhetoric― and how it serves to enrich a minuscule few at the expense of the many

In his 1970 book The Myth of Black Capitalism, Earl Ofari Hutchinson laid out a rigorous challenge to the presumption that capitalism, in any shape or form, has the potential to rectify the stark injustices endured by...

Introduction -- 1. The launching of a career. -- 2. The developing struggle. -- 3. Prophet of revolutionary Black Nationalism. -- 4. Racism, religion, and the Black struggle. -- 5. Internationalizing the struggle. -- 6. "A grand center of negro nationality". -- 7. Looki8ng ahead.

What makes this book different from the many parenting guides already available? First, it is not a how-to manual. It does not tell how to diaper babies, handle tantrums, or set up a carpool. Rather, it deals with the importance of a father's involvement with his children and with basic principles of good parenting. Second, while so much of the...

In this important new study, Hutchinson examines in detail the American Communist party's largely unsuccessful effort to win the allegiance of black Americans in the 20th century. From the time of its creation in 1919, Hutchinson argues, the party sought to recruit African Americans, initially by arguing that Marxist ideology best served their...

In The Assassination of the Black Male Image, noted political analyst and media critic Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson offers a searing, controversial indictment of our society’s attitudes toward black men.

The black male image, he argues, has been battered, maligned, and assaulted by academics, the press, and Hollywood, as well as by some black...

In this book, Hutchinson reveals that no American president has ever signed into law a federal antilynching bill despite a 50-year campaign by the NAACP for presidential and congressional action. He documents how Nixon, Reagan, and Bush rolled back civil rights and affirmative action, failed to fully enforce equal protection provisions of the...

How World War II Remade America is not another rehash of the monumental events of the nearly four years the U.S. was engaged in the war. This story has been told in many minute, carefully researched histories and accounts by many war vets, officials, military historians, scholars, and experts. It is not a definitive study of the colossal...

Beethoven and Me: A Beginner’s Guide to Classical Music, Hutchinson breaks through a hard barrier that has long separated politics and social commentary from music, in this case classical music. He shares his many personal experiences in concert halls and his observations about the world of classical music. Beethoven and Me: A Beginner’s Guide...

From King to Obama: Witness to a Turbulent History conveys the exhilaration the author feels at having walked in the shadow of history of a Dr. King, a Miles Davis, a John Lennon, a Bob Marley, and many others. Hutchinson’s mission is to make the reader feel the exhilaration he felt meeting, talking with, interviewing and personally engaging...

Why Black Lives Do Matter probes deeply how racial typecasting continues to fuel the widespread public belief that Blacks are victimizers and not victims. This has stifled public debate and enabled political inaction, if not outright resistance, to meaningful solutions to the problem of racial victimization in American society. He observes that...