Henry Louis Gates, JR., Author, Cornel West, Author, Cornel West, Joint Author Free Press $30 (432p) ISBN 978-0-684-86414-3
""At the dawn of the 21st century... we cannot imagine a truly American culture that has not, in profound ways, been shaped by the contributions of African Americans,"" write scholars and popular social commentators West and Gates in the...
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Cornel West, Author . Penguin Press $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59420-029-8
A sequel to 1993's Race Matters
, West's latest aims to "look unflinchingly at the waning of democratic energies and practices in our present age of American empire." Such orotund language pervades the book, which expands...
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Cornel West, Author Beacon Press $15 (105p) ISBN 978-0-8070-0918-5
In eight brief but powerful essays, West, director of Afro-American Studies at Princeton, delivers innovative analyses of our nation's racial dilemmas. West is insistently moral, criticizing racial hierarchy and black leaders who cannot transcend...
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Cornel West, Author Routledge $85 (340p) ISBN 978-0-415-90486-5
Readers who enjoyed the illuminating essays in West's bestselling Race Matters will be baffled by this collection of 17 academic essays. West is a formidable intellect, but only tenacious, grounded readers will find useful his analyses of...
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Cornel West, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (159p) ISBN 978-0-679-74986-8
West's collection of eight cogent and profoundly moral essays on American race relations was a one-week PW bestseller. (Apr . )
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Cornel West, Author, Michael Lerner, With Putnam Publishing Group $24.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-399-14046-4
The complex history and diverse voices of the relationship between American blacks and Jews necessarily mean that two individuals can't definitively represent hardly homogeneous groups. Thus, readers might best see these edited dialogues as an...
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Cornel West, Author, Kelvin Shawn Sealey, Editor, Henry Louis Gates, JR., Afterword by Beacon Press (MA) $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8070-0942-0
This book transcribes eight meandering conversations on race conducted by West (Race Matters) with such prominent people as Harry Belafonte, poet/publisher Haki Madhubuti and Wynton Marsalis. Several were held publicly at the Schomburg Center in...
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Quinton H. Dixie, Author, Cornel West, Author, Quinton Hosford Dixie, Editor Beacon Press $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8070-0953-6
This medley of well-crafted essays honors the late James Melvin Washington, a Union Theological Seminary professor and a pioneer in the field of African-American religious history. Washington's various friends, students and colleagues form an august
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Cornel West, with Christa Buschendorf. Beacon Press, $26.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-8070-0352-7
Fearful that we may be “witnessing the death of black prophetic fire in our time,” historians West and Buschendorf engage in a book-length conversation about six historic figures–Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker,
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