Word: cornel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...direction we ought to be moving. It is easy to forget, but "diversity" is not the same as social justice. The time has come for us all to re-examine the dangerous logic implicit in some of our "rah-rah diversity" claims. True progressive thought, according to Professor Cornel West, overcomes racialized ways of thinking and replaces it with moral thinking. It dares to critique even the "minority" component of the establishment to work towards social justice for all disempowered peoples...
Horowitz said he realized the Left's answer would be that Winfrey is "a token." However, Horowitz countered, "Oprah Winfrey isn't a token--Cornel West is a token. He's an empty intellectual suit, he's not that smart, and he got his place because of the scramble for black faces in the university by the liberal administration...
...video clips include segments of Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 talking about freedom, actor Whoopi Goldberg on race, Jones discussing music, poet Maya Angelou speaking about the black diaspora and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan discussing Africa. Appiah and Gates also have a clip on the encyclopedia's origins...
...news of his illness spread across campusyesterday, many members of the Harvard communitystopped to say a prayer for their friend.Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West'74 asked his class to observe a moment of silencefor Higginbotham at the beginning of Af-Am 10,"Introduction to Afro-American Studies." Duringthe day, members of the Black StudentsAssociation, Kuumba and the W.E.B. DuBois Societyalso received an e-mail message on Higginbotham'scondition that urged them to pray for hisrecovery...
Gabler's command of the history of television, theater, cinema and journalism in America is exceptional. He extends his claims to fields such as religion, sports, publishing, visual art and even education. It seems that even Harvard is subject to the magnetism of celebrity: "Academstars like ...Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.," Gabler writes, "built their reputations the way stars usually did: by gaining media attention, in this case writing articles for newspapers and magazines and appearing as experts on television programs, or glomming onto the latest academic fad or controversy...