The article discusses two books; "With Malcolm X in Africa, England, and the Caribbean," by Jan Carew; "Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X," By Michael Eric Dyson. Carew's scholarly memoir of a two-day interview with Black Muslim Elijah Muhammad Malcolm in London weeks comes before his murder and Dyson's culled partly from essays published previously in journals "Social Text," "Tikkun," and "Christian Century."
