Restoring hope
Subtitle: conversations on the future of Black America
By: Cornel West ; edited by Kelvin Shawn Sealey.
Contributors: Sealey, Kelvin Shawn.; Obsidian Society.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: African Americans -- Social conditions; African Americans -- Conduct of life; African Americans -- Interviews; Celebrities -- United States -- Interviews; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Perhaps the most prominent public intellectual of our time, Cornel West asks nine of America's most influential artists, scholars, and public figures about the sources of hope among African Americans today: "How can we be realistic about what this nation is about and still sustain hope, acknowledging that we're up against so much?"
Notes: "A project of the Obsidian Society."