Race matters
By: Cornel West
Edition: Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780807041222; 9780807008836
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Social conditions; Race relations; African Americans
Description: "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."--Amazon.com.
Notes: "With a new introduction"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Preface 2001: Democracy matters in race matters; title: Preface 1993; title: Race matters in twenty-first century American; title: Introduction: Race matters; title: Nihilism in Black America; title: The pitfalls of racial reasoning; title: The crisis of Black leadership; title: Demystifying the new Black conservatism; title: Beyond Affirmative Action: equality and identity; title: On Black-Jewish relations; title: Black sexuality: the taboo subject; title: Malcolm X and Black rage; title: Epilogue.