Cornel West Livres

Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education and public benefits create a permanent under-caste based largely on race. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

The memoir delves into the author's introspective journey, exploring the complexities of his inner self and the darker aspects of his soul. As a New York Times bestselling author and a prominent public intellectual, he reflects on his life experiences and personal growth, offering readers a candid look at his thoughts and emotions. This exploration promises to reveal the deeper layers of his identity and the struggles that have shaped his perspectives.

Cornel West's premiere work invites African Americans to integrate Marxism into their theology, emphasizing class over race as the primary source of powerlessness in America. Drawing from his personal life experiences, West presents a thought-provoking perspective that resonates with political and cultural themes. His arguments have stood the test of time, continuing to inspire and shape the theological discourse and critical engagement of subsequent generations of scholars.

Keeping Faith is a rich, moving and deeply personal collection of essays from one of the leading African American intellectuals of our age. Drawing upon the traditions of Western philosophy and modernity, Cornel West critiques structures of power and oppression as they operate within American society and provides a way of thinking about human dignity and difference afresh.

Cornel West is one of the nation's premier public intellectuals and one of the great prophetic voices of our era. Whether he is writing a scholarly book or an article for Newsweek, whether he is speaking of Emerson, Gramsci, or Marvin Gaye, his work radiates a passion that reflects the rich traditions he draws on and weaves togetherÑBaptist preaching, American transcendentalism, jazz, radical politics. This anthology reveals the dazzling range of West's work, from his explorations of ”Prophetic Pragmatism” to his philosophizing on hip-hop.The Cornel West Reader traces the development of West's extraordinary career as academic, public intellectual, and activist. In his essays, articles, books, and interviews, West emerges as America's social conscience, urging attention to complicated issues of racial and economic justice, sexuality and gender, history and politics. This collection represents the best work of an always compelling, often controversial, and absolutely essential philosopher of the modern American experience.

addresses the question of cultural marginalization - the process through which various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture

Despite the rising climate of racial hatred and violence in America, discussions of race remain trapped in traditional liberal and conservative rhetoric. Cornel West emerges as a transformative voice, addressing urgent issues facing black Americans, from discrimination to despair and the legacy of Malcolm X. He courageously breaks the silence surrounding taboo topics in the black community while acknowledging the realities of race in America. Drawing from his background as the grandson of a Baptist minister, West combines the love ethic of the African-American religious tradition with political insights from the Black Panthers. His fresh perspective allows him to tackle painful and controversial issues, including new black conservatism, black-Jewish relations, and myths about black sexuality. Described by the New York Times as a "cosmopolitan public intellectual," West is recognized for making intellectual discourse engaging. Scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. refers to him as "our Black Jeremiah," while Harvard Divinity School's Dean Ronald F. Thiemann notes his unique capability to inherit the mantle of Reinhold Niebuhr. West warns that racial hierarchy threatens the democratic fabric of the nation, fostering collective paranoia and hysteria. With love and insight, he guides Americans toward a genuine multiracial democracy.

The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on race contains Dr. West’s most incisive essays on the issues relevant to black Americans, including the crisis in leadership in the Black community, Black conservatism, Black-Jewish relations, myths about Black sexuality, and the legacy of Malcolm X. The insights Dr. West brings to these complex problems remain relevant, provocative, creative, and compassionate. In a new introduction for the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Dr. West argues that we are in the midst of a spiritual blackout characterized by imperial decline, racial animosity, and unchecked brutality and terror as seen in Baltimore, Ferguson, and Charlottesville. Calling for a moral and spiritual awakening, Dr. West finds hope in the collective and visionary resistance exemplified by the Movement for Black Lives, Standing Rock, and the Black freedom tradition. Now more than ever, Race Matters is an essential book for all Americans, helping us to build a genuine multiracial democracy in the new millennium.

“Uncompromising and unconventional . . . Cornel West is an eloquent prophet with attitude.” — Newsweek“ "A timely analysis about the current state of democratic systems in America." — The Boston Globe In Democracy Matters, Cornel West argues that if America is to become a better steward of democratization around the world, we must first wake up to the long history of corruption that has plagued our own democracy: racism, free market fundamentalism, aggressive militarism, and escalating authoritarianism. This impassioned and empowering call for the revitalization of America's democracy, by one of our most distinctive and compelling social critics, will reshape the raging national debate about America's role in today's troubled world.

To communicate that history, the essays gathered here move from the common demonization of Blacks and Jews in the Middle Ages, to an accurate assessment of Jewish involvement in the slave trade; to the confluence of Black migration from the South and Jewish immigration from Europe into Northern cities between 1880 and 1935; to the meaningful alliance forged during the Civil Rights movement and the conflicts over Black Power and the struggle in the Middle East that effectively ended that alliance.