Word: cornel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his full-blown Afro, close-fitting three-piece suits and fondness for rap music, Cornel West comes across as too hip to be a philosopher. That helps explain why people are always confusing him with someone considerably less highbrow, especially when he's not on campus...
...these incidents suggest, Cornel West is one complex dude: brilliant scholar, political activist, committed Christian and soul brother down to the bone. At 40 he has become one of the most insightful and passionate analysts of America's racial dilemma to emerge in recent years, the architect of a post-civil rights philosophy of black liberation that is beginning to be heard across the country. "I think he is one of our most important critical thinkers," says James H. Cone, West's former colleague at New York's Union Theological Seminary. "He has almost singlehandedly helped us see the importance...
...easy to jump on Afrocentrics, but it's Eurocentrism that's screwing up the world. Afrocentrism doesn't have the power. It would take billions of dollars and many years to do the kind of job on the American psyche that the Eurocentric educational system has done. When Cornel West says, for example, that Afrocentrics are misguided, I am reminded that the basic book of Western Civilization, the bible--which I'm reading line by line and reading all the commentary on--justifies slavery, misogyny, missandry, homophobia, persecution of followers of other gods, and that the central figure of Western...
...panel, titled "The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack," featured Margaret Burnham, Henry Louis Gates Jr., bell hooks, Glen Loury, Eugene Rivers and Cornel R. West '74. Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah moderated the debate...
There is no need mention the hustling which scholar Cornel West describes as being a crucial part of African-American existence. One dare not broach the ugly, inelegant aspects of negritude. All the disturbing topics are brushed aside with the same nervous smile that seems to flitter about the unasked DuBoisian question, "How does it feel to be a problem...