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Race Matters, 25th Anniversary

With a New Introduction

With a New Introduction

With a New Introduction

By Cornel West

By Cornel West

By Cornel West

By Cornel West

By Cornel West

By Cornel West

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    About Race Matters, 25th Anniversary

    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.

    About Race Matters, 25th Anniversary

    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.

    About Race Matters, 25th Anniversary

    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.

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    Product Details

    Category: Philosophy

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Beacon Press
    Dec 05, 2017 | 128 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780807008836

    Category: Philosophy

    Hardcover | $22.95
    Published by Beacon Press
    Dec 05, 2017 | 128 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780807041222

    Category: Philosophy

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Beacon Press
    Dec 05, 2017 | 128 Pages | ISBN 9780807064344

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    Praise

    “As moving as any of the sermons of the Rev. Martin Luther King, as profound as W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, as exhilarating in their offering of liberation as James Baldwin’s early essays.”
    —David Nicholson, Washington Post Book World

    “Cornel West is one of the most authentic, brilliant, prophetic, and healing voices in America today. We ignore his truth in Race Matters at our personal and national peril.”
    —Marian Wright Edelman

    “Exciting . . . illuminating . . . West’s thinking consistently challenges the conventional wisdom [and] confronts the reader with profound and unsettling insights.”
    —Robert S. Boynton, Newsday

    “A compelling blend of philosophy, sociology and political commentary . . . It directly takes on some of the most volatile issues facing American society today. . . . One can only applaud the ferocious moral vision and astute intellect on display in these pages.”
    —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

    Table Of Contents

    Preface 2001: Democracy Matters in Race Matters

    Preface 1993

    Race Matters in Twenty-First Century America

    Introduction: Race Matters

    1. Nihilism in Black America

    2. The Pitfalls of Racial Reasoning

    3. The Crisis of Black Leadership

    4. Demystifying the New Black Conservatism

    5. Beyond Affirmative Action: Equality and Identity

    6. On Black-Jewish Relations

    7. Black Sexuality: The Taboo Subject

    8. Malcolm X and Black Rage

    Epilogue

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