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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...
Harvard's DuBois Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosphy of Religion Cornel West '73, two of the most distinguished black intellectuals in the United States, have recently published a book called The Future of the Race. When two black intellectuals of the caliber and reputation of these two men publish a book and join the race debate, we listen. We expect one of two things: either a scholarly analysis of the debate or initiatives that propose policy changes. Does this book accomplish either...
...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...
Participants said they were excited to discuss activism with such a diverse group and to learn from the keynote speakers, Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West '74 and Faith E. Adiele '86, coordinator...