Word: cornel
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...pieces that focus more closely on Malcolm X himself are equally revealing. Cornel West's essay on "Malcolm X and Black Rage" deals with the transformative, freeing anger so central to Malcolm's thought and his electrifying oratory style. For West, Malcolm articulated outrage at "the sheer absurdity that confronts human beings of African descent in this country--the incessant assaults on Black intelligence, beauty, character and possibility." With his trademark eloquence, West elucidates how that rage served to perform a "Black psychic conversion," a defiant re-evaluation of the self that is free of American racist values. West argues...
Blacks need to apply a strong sense of love and community to combat feelings of rage and invisibility, said Cornel West '74 in the final installment of this year's W.E.B. Du Bois lecture series yesterday...
...Cornel R. West '74 is a man of his word. A devout believer in the academic as activist, he has taken his "variety of African ways of being" around the country...
...Cornel has emerged as a master of pedagogy and intellectualism, harnessing the Black ministerial demeanor reminiscent of Martin Luther King, Jr. but with the added intellectual panache," says Kilson, who was one of West's teachers...
...perception of Blacks as a "problematic people" is the source of Black rage in today's society, Cornel West '74 said yesterday in the second installment of this year's W.E.B. Du Bois lecture program...