Race Matters
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (991 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00005474A |
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| Number of Pages | : | 132 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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And the insights that he brings to these complicated problems remain fresh, exciting, creative, and compassionate. The fundamental litmus test for American democracy-its economy, government, criminal justice system, education, mass media, and culture-remains: how broad and intense are the arbitrary powers used and deployed against black people. Race Matters contains West's most powerful essays on the issues relevant to black Americans today: despair, black conservatism, black-Jewish relations, myths about black sexuality, the crisis in leadership in the black community, and the legacy of Malcolm X. In this sense, the problem of the twenty-first century remains the problem of the color line. --from the new PrefaceFirst published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters was a national best-seller, and it has since become a groun
. West is insistently moral, criticizing racial hierarchy and black leaders who cannot transcend race to fight for "fundamental social change." Though he does not spare black liberals, he more harshly criticizes "new black conservatives" who in his view ignore the damaging cultural force of black sexual and military images as employed in advertisements and mass media. 40,000 first printing; paperback rights to Vintage; BOMC selection; QPB featured selection; author tour. From Publishers Weekly In eight brief but powerful essays, West, director of Afro-American Studies at Princeton, delivers i
Michael Holloway said The Persistent Parenthetical. As a passenger in a car speeding toward disaster, West gives nervous but intelligent instructions as he tries to grab the steering wheel. With a voice intelligent and packed to the temples with the facts of events and markers of history, he leaves the. "Race still matters" according to Artbart. West is one of the most insightful writers about race of our time. His first premise, that the liberal understanding of racism does not go far enough, is the best contribution from this book. Subsequent chapters appear to be somewhat dated--not surpri. "Intriguing" according to The Gustavich Effect. My interest in this book came from a sociology class and a literature course I had in college around the time the book was published. I graduated years ago and cherish my memory of discussions and lectures in both.One of my favorite lecturers at that