Race Matters, 25th Anniversary With a New Introduction |
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Author:
| West, Cornel |
ISBN: | 978-0-8070-0883-6 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2017 |
Publisher: | Beacon Press
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Imprint: | Beacon Press |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $15.00 |
Book Description:
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The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a newintroduction.
First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, RaceMatters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half amillion copies. This classic treatise on race contains Dr. West's most incisive essays onthe issues relevant to black Americans, including the crisis in leadership in the Blackcommunity, Black conservatism,...
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The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a newintroduction.
First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, RaceMatters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half amillion copies. This classic treatise on race contains Dr. West's most incisive essays onthe issues relevant to black Americans, including the crisis in leadership in the Blackcommunity, Black conservatism, Black-Jewish relations, myths about Black sexuality,and the legacy of Malcolm X. The insights Dr. West brings to these complex problemsremain relevant, provocative, creative, and compassionate.
In a new introduction for the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Dr. West argues that weare in the midst of a spiritual blackout characterized by imperial decline, racialanimosity, and unchecked brutality and terror as seen in Baltimore, Ferguson, andCharlottesville. Calling for a moral and spiritual awakening, Dr. West finds hope in thecollective 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 usto build a genuine multiracial democracy in the new millennium.