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Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 2, 1953, Princeton Professor Cornel Ronald West is one of America’s most gifted and provocative public intellectuals. He is the author of Race Matters, a seminal classic credited with changing the course of the country’s dialogue about justice and equality along the color line. A cultural icon, he is the recipient of the American Book Award as well as more than 20 honorary degrees His best-selling book, "Race Matters," touched a nerve in the American public and triggered a national debate on race issues. West graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in only three years. He earned his master's and doctorate degrees from Princeton University. He then became a professor of religion and the director of the Afro-American Studies program at Princeton. [http://www.voice.neu.edu/Voice/960606/west.html] "Cornel West has been called America's "Public Intellectual", aptly describing his relaxed demeanor and easy accessibility. He avoids the jargon that oftentimes separates the scholar from the world he or she is supposed to describe. " Read an interview with Dr. West as he discusses his latest book Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom (November 2008)
Hardcover: 256 pages
New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom, the streets, the prisons, or the church, Dr. West’s penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon shining through the darkness for decades. Yet, as he points out in this new memoir, “I’ve never taken the time to focus on the inner dynamics of the dark precincts of my soul.” That is, until now. Brother West is like its author: brilliant, unapologetic, full of passion yet cool. This poignant memoir traces West’s transformation from a schoolyard Robin Hood into a progressive cultural icon. From his youthful investigation of the “death shudder” to why he embraced his calling of teaching over preaching, from his three marriages and his two precious children to his near-fatal bout with prostate cancer, West illuminates what it means to live as “an aspiring bluesman in a world of ideas and a jazzman in the life of the mind.” Woven together with the fibers of his lifelong commitment to the prophetic Christian tradition that began in Sacramento’s Shiloh Baptist Church, Brother West is a tale of a man courageous enough to be fully human, living and loving out loud.
Hardcover: 246 Pages, illustrated (Includes a
free CD)
The New York Times best-selling author of Race Matters and Democracy
Matters offers open-hearted wisdom for our times in this courageous
collection of quotations, speech excerpts, letters, philosophy, and
photographs that reflect the profound humanity that fuels the passionate
public intellectual. In a world that seesaws between unconditional love
and acceptance and blind hatred and exclusion, Hope on a Tightrope will
satisfy readers in search of deep wells of inspiration and challenge
that marries the mind to the heart.
ISBN: 1594200297 In his major bestseller, Race Matters, philosopher Cornel West burst
onto the national scene with his searing analysis of the scars of racism in
American democracy. Race Matters has become a contemporary classic, still
in print after ten years, having sold more than four hundred thousand copies. A
mesmerizing speaker with a host of fervidly devoted fans, West gives as many as
one hundred public lectures a year and appears regularly on radio and
television. Praised by The New York Times for his "ferocious moral
vision" and hailed by Newsweek as "an elegant prophet with attitude," he bridges
the gap between black and white opinion about the country's problems.
by Corinne J. Naden, Rose Blue ISBN: 1410910407 About the African-American Biographies Series: These biographies tell the inspiring stories of musicians, writers, actors, educators, sports heroes, and leaders whose determination and talent continue to set examples today. Readers will be fascinated to learn about the lives of well-known African Americans who overcame tremendous odds, such as racism and poverty, and went on to leave their lasting marks in the world.
Format: Adobe Reader (PDF), Printable: Yes All companies value leadership--some of them enough to invest dearly in cultivating it. But few management teams seem to value one engine of leadership development that is right under their noses, churning out the kind of talent they need most. It's the complicated, overburdened but very rich lives of their minority managers. Minority professionals--particularly women of color--are called upon inordinately to lend their skills and guidance to activities outside their jobs. Sylvia Ann Hewlett, who heads the Center for Work-Life Policy, and her co-authors, Carolyn Buck Luce of Ernst & Young and Cornel West of Princeton, present new research on the extent to which minority professionals take on community service and other responsibilities outside the workplace and more than their share of recruiting, mentoring, and committee work within the workplace. These invisible lives, argue the authors, can be a source of competitive strength if companies can learn to recognize and further cultivate the cultural capital they represent. But it's hard to convince minority professionals that their employer respects and values their off-hours responsibilities. A lack of trust keeps many people from revealing much about their personal lives. The authors outline four ways companies can leverage hidden skills: Develop a new level of awareness of minority professionals' invisible lives; appreciate the outsize burdens these professionals carry and try to lighten them; build trust by putting teeth into diversity goals; and, to finish the job of leadership development, help minorities reflect on their off-hours experiences, extract and generalize the lessons, and apply what's been learned in other settings.
Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude (Editor) ISBN: 0664224598 Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer the discipline into the future Arguing that the complexity of beliefs, choices, and actions of African Americans need not be reduced to expressions of black religion, West and Glaude call for more careful reflection on the complex relationships of African American religious studies to conceptions of class, gender, sexual orientation, race, empire, and other values that continue to challenge our democratic ideals.
by Dr. Cornel West & Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
ISBN: 0679763783 In a ground-breaking collaboration, and taking the great W. E. B. Du Bois as their model, two of our foremost African-American intellectuals address the dreams, fears, aspirations, and responsibilities of the black community - especially the black elite - on the eve of the twenty-first century. In 1903, the influential historian, editor, and co-founder of the NAACP, W. E. B. Du Bois, published his now famous essay "The Talented Tenth." "The Negro race," it began, "like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men." For the young post-Civil Rights era group of leaders, of which Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West have become such a significant part, "The Talented Tenth" was held up as a model for the social, political, and ethical roles of the new "crossover" generation. Du Bois's belief in an educated class dedicated to reform became their inspiration and their credo. Now, nearly a century after Du Bois set forth the role of the educated black American, Gates and West explore this pivotal aspect of his intellectual legacy - and, in so doing, they not only re-examine Du Bois's ideas on leadership but also respond to the challenges of the present. The problems are clear and urgent. Since the day Martin Luther King, Jr., died, the black middle class has quadrupled. Yet, simultaneously, the size of the black underclass has disproportionately and tragically skyrocketed.
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Brother West: Living and Loving
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Hope on a Tightrope: Words
and Wisdom
Democracy
Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Strengths of Minority Executives
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology
The Future of the
Race
Restoring
Hope; Conversations on the Future of Black America
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