The scholar, theologian, and activist who has been acclaimed as one of the most eloquent voices in our ongoing racial debate now bridges the gulf between black and white America in a work of enormous resonance and moral authority. West takes on the questions of politics, economics, ethics, and spirituality and addresses the crisis in black ...
Noted theologian and professor Cornel West advocates a faith-based response to what he sees as a creeping imperialism that threatens our democratic heritage. West's trenchant analysis of American culture at a post-9/11 crossroads makes challenging reading. His references range from key epochs in American history, to classical Greece, to the ...
This collection of essays by the noted theologian and public intellectual Cornel West is drawn mostly from journals and displays a full range of issues and interests, including philosophy, culture, race, music, and politics. Included are interviews with Bill Moyers and bell hooks, as well as an autobiographical piece of writing from early in his ...
Noted theologian and professor Cornel West advocates a faith-based response to what he sees as creeping imperialism which threatens our democratic heritage. West's trenchant analysis of American culture at a post-9/11 crossroads makes challenging reading. His references range from key epochs in American history, to classical Greece, to the nations ...
Offering openhearted wisdom for modern times, this courageous collection of quotations, speech excerpts, letters, and photographs by the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Democracy Matters" includes an original CD that highlights Dr. West's outstanding spoken-word artistry.
A leading African American intellectual delivers a powerful new vision of race in the U.S. Arguing that current ideologies have left racial politics in a state of crisis, West offers a new vision and invites black and white Americans alike to reclaim moral language and action for revolutionary politics that forge a genuine multiracial democracy.
Keeping Faith is a powerful collection of essays on politics and philosophy, the role of the black intellectual, legal theory and the fate of African Americans. In Keeping Faith , Cornel West performs his unique blend of thorough-going critique and animated political engagement. He situates the current position of African Americans by tracing the ...
Originally published in 1954, Richard Wright's "Black Power" is an extraordinary nonfiction work by one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth century. An impassioned chronicle of the author's trip to Africa's Gold Coast before it became the free nation of Ghana, it speaks eloquently of empowerment and possibility, and resonates ...
Before Ken Griffey Jr., before Reggie Jackson, before Hank Aaron, baseball's celebrated stars had one undeniable trait in common: they were all white. In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke that barrier, changing the world of sports forever.
Co-authors Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West make a case that business, government, and the culture as a whole often seem to act in ways that undermine parents, and they offer a visionary blueprint for change that is specific and compassionate.
Like Race Matters and Playing in the Dark, The House That Race Built is a cutting-edge work that confronts, honestly and passionately, the most critical issues facing American culture today along the fissure of race. In these essays, brought together by the scholar Wahneema Lubiano, some of today's most respected intellectuals share their ideas on ...
W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, Louis Armstrong, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Pryor, Alice Walker, Spike Lee....These profiles reflect the achievements by African-Americans in many fields of endeavor and collectively testify to their influence on American life. Ten bios for each of ten decades, prepared under the ...
A testament to the invincibility of the human spirit, this is a collection of short essays on nature, politics, culture, race and religion. The author examines the truest dimensions of existence.
"Prophesy Deliverance! is an exhilarating and challenging intellectual exercise. Cornel West takes the philosophic enterprise, the quest for the right way to live, with utmost seriousness, and has given us an impressive blueprint toward a framework that would meet questions o human living. His book is one of the most important and sophisticated ...
Recent flashpoints in Black-Jewish relations-Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, the violence in Crown Heights, Leonard Jeffries' polemical speeches, the O.J. Simpson verdict, and the contentious responses to these events-suggest just how wide the gap has become in the fragile coalition that was formed during the Civil Rights movement of the ...
Jewish activist Michael Lerner and the leading thinker on African American issues, Cornel West, open dialogue on the prevalent questions regarding the tenous relationship between Blacks and Jews. Through their discussions of today's commonalities and conflicts, they consider what it would take to reestablish the old alliance, and why this ...
Taking Emerson as his starting-point, Cornel West's basic task is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism. John Dewey is the central figure in West's pantheon of pragmatists, but he treats as well such varied mid-century representatives of the tradition as Sidney Hook, C. Wright Mills, W.E.B. Du ...
"This collection of writings, drawn from a wide variety of sources, reveals the intellectual depth and breadth of the author. The articles include political commentary, cultural critique, literary analysis, extended book reviews, and even a short story by West. All of these are held together by a prophetic Afro-American Christian perspective. The ...
The first volume in the Lives of the Left series, Annie Cohen-Solal's Sartre is a remarkable achievement. "A sensation" upon its initial publication in France, as the New York Times reported, Sartre was subsequently translated into sixteen languages and went on to become an international bestseller, appealing to the broadest audience. First ...
Though the alliance between blacks and Jews was once the cornerstone of liberal politics, today there are those in each community who see their former ally as their most dangerous foe. In Jews and Blacks, West and Lerner explore some of the most pressing problems of contemporary America through the prism of the relationship between their two ...
Maya Angelou, Harry Belafonte, Bill Bradley, Wynton Marsalis, and others share their experiences and hopes for black America with the bestselling author of "Race Matters".
In this unique collaboration, the most prized and esteemed scholars in theology, religious history, and sociology offer a new understanding of American spiritual life by placing African-American religious experience at its center. Moving from specific cases in African-American history and theology to discussions of how African-American experiences ...
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