Word: cornel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conference, more than 100 students of all different races and class years packed the Winthrop Junior Common Room to hear Professor of Religion and Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West '74 and Education 4 Action Coordinator Faith E. Adele '86 speak about the necessity of an inclusive, and grassroots, approach to social activism. The students then clustered in small groups to get goals and brainstorm tactics...
...courses at Harvard reinforce the American mythology. Some criticize it effectively, such as Carswell Professor of English and American Literature and Language Sacvan Bercovitch's Core literature class, aptly titled "The Myth of America," or the Afro-American Studies classes taught by Professor of the Philosophy of Religion Cornel West '74, or Professor of Sociology Christopher Winship's class on poverty. Unfortunately, such perspectives are difficult to find at Harvard. This University will not fully embody its motto, veritas, until it "found[s] Right on righteousness and Truth on the unhampered search for Truth," principles of education that were advocated...
Responding to a bizarre series of personal attacks and threats, Professor of the Philosophy of Religion and Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West '74 canceled a May 11 Arkansas speaking engagement, according to officials...
...Race. Gerald Early, director of African-American studies at Washington University in St. Louis, reviewed the book for The New York Times and while he found professor Gates' essay "charming and coherent", he criticized it for being at times "all too sweeping and superficial." Early also criticized Cornel West's essay for being overly "sermonic and moralistic", and for having "too much free association and not enough in-depth analysis...
...believe that "rank opportunism" is why Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates are where they are--in the top tier of intellegensia, black or white...