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Books by Cornel West
Democracy Matters: The Fight Against Imperialism /
Race
Matters /
Cornel West Reader /
The Future of the Race
The American Evasion of Philosophy /
African
American Religious Thought /
The War Against Parents
The African American Century /
White on White / Black on Black /
Prophesy Deliverance /
The Soul Knows No Bars
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Cornell West:
Black Scholar
Abandons Harvard & Moves
to Princeton
Is His Job Situation Relevant to
Black Liberation?
Cornel West was a member of the Faculty of Divinity at Harvard University's
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute of Afro-American Research and taught
primarily in the fields of Afro-American studies and philosophy of religion. He
had also previously taught at Yale University, Union Theological Seminary, and Princeton
University, where he was chair of the department of Afro-American studies.
He is
the author of numerous books including Beyond Ethnocentrism and
Multiculturalism, Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin, The Cornel West
Reader, The African-American Century, and Race Matters. His research
interests include African-American critical thought, cultural criticism, social
theory, the influence of modernism and postmodernism on literature, and the
future of American youth. In addition to his activities at Harvard, Cornel West
speaks frequently at other colleges, universities and to religious and civic
organizations.
The courses he has taught recently include:
- Pragmatism and
Neopragmatism
- Christianity and
Democracy
- American Democracy
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News from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
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For immediate release: April 12, 2002
Contact: Marilyn Marks, 609-258-3601 or mmarks@princeton.edu
Cornel West to return to Princeton as senior faculty member
Eddie Glaude, scholar of African-American religious studies, to be
associate professor
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Enhancing its strong Program in African-American
Studies, Princeton University is planning to appoint to the faculty
Cornel West, the acclaimed teacher and scholar of religion, and Eddie S.
Glaude Jr., a Bowdoin College professor known for his work in
African-American religious studies. The appointments require the
approval of Princeton's Board of Trustees, which meets Saturday, and
would take effect July 1.
"Cornel West, who is known for his intellectual
contributions in the study of religion and for challenging those both
inside and outside of academia to think about critical issues of race,
was a popular and dedicated teacher during his previous tenure at
Princeton, and we are pleased that he has decided to return," said
Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman. "He will be joined by
Eddie Glaude, who studied with Professor West as a Princeton graduate
student and has since built his own reputation as a gifted scholar and
teacher."
West, the Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor at Harvard, will
return to Princeton as the Class of 1943 University Professor of
Religion. He was a member of Princeton's faculty from 1988 through 1994,
serving as professor of religion and director of the Program in
African-American Studies.
A prolific writer and widely cited scholar, West focuses on the area
where religious thought, social theory and pragmatic philosophy meet.
His most influential scholarly work, "The American Evasion of
Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism," is a history of pragmatism
from Emerson to the present. "It would be accurate to say that he
has reshaped religious studies in such a way that his area of interest
is now seen as central to the field," said Jeffrey Stout, a
professor of religion at Princeton.
Through his writings, West has proven himself to be one of the most
penetrating and wide-ranging critics of contemporary religious thought,
Stout said, adding that West "defends a position that combines
pragmatism and Christian thought in a way that is reminiscent of the
young Reinhold Niebuhr."
West's book "Race Matters," which sold nearly 400,000
copies and influenced a national dialogue on race, brought him
widespread attention and honors outside the field of religious studies.
His recent work includes two important books he co-authored on public
policy issues: "The Future of American Progressivism" and
"The War Against Parents."
"I am excited to return to the greatest center for humanistic
studies in the country," West said. "I look forward to being a
part of President Tilghman's vision that promotes high quality
intellectual conversation mediated with respect."
Writer Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the
Humanities, said: "Depth, precision and fervor have always
characterized Cornel West's work as well as his teaching. Princeton is
extremely fortunate in securing him -- again."
West graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude, and earned
his Ph.D. degree in philosophy at Princeton in 1980. In 1996, he was
awarded the James Madison Medal, the highest honor Princeton bestows on
graduate alumni.
At Harvard, West has taught introductory through advanced courses,
and his "Introduction to Afro-American Studies" class was the
second most popular course at the university. In addition, West has been
on the faculty at Union Theological Seminary and Yale University, and
has served as a visiting professor at numerous other colleges and
universities. In all his appointments, he has been recognized for his
commitment to teaching and his dedication to both undergraduate and
graduate students.
"The Department of Religion is delighted to welcome back Cornel
West," said Professor Martha Himmelfarb, chair of the department.
"During his years here he brought extraordinary energy to his
undergraduate teaching, and he helped to attract and train an
exceptional group of graduate students. We very much look forward to his
return, which will enrich the department in so many ways."
West is "certain to make a fine contribution to the intellectual
life of the Program in African-American Studies," said Professor
Colin Palmer, that program's acting director. "I look forward to
working with him on many projects that will enhance the study of the
peoples of the African Diaspora on this campus."
Another faculty member joining the Department of Religion is Eddie
Glaude, who was appointed associate professor. Glaude, now associate
professor of religion and Africana studies at Bowdoin College, is the
author of "Exodus! Religion, Race, and
Nation in Early 19th Century Black America," a finalist for the
Society of Historians of the Early Republic first book prize. He edited
"Is It Nation Time? Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black
Nationalism," and is the co-editor, with West, of the forthcoming
volume "African American Religious Studies: An Anthology."
"Eddie Glaude is among the most interesting members of a new
generation of scholars in the study of American religious life and
thought. He's a teacher of extraordinary energy and imagination and a
person of strong and thoughtful convictions," said Charles Beitz, a
Princeton politics professor who, as dean for academic affairs at
Bowdoin, recruited Glaude there. "He was a great contributor to the
Bowdoin faculty in every important dimension, and we're very lucky to
have attracted him to Princeton," Beitz said.
Glaude is a 1989 graduate of Morehouse College, with a bachelor's
degree in political science. He has a master's degree in
African-American studies from Temple University. At Princeton, he earned
a master's degree and doctorate in religion.
"I am very excited about my appointment to the faculty at
Princeton University," Glaude said. "I am convinced that
something really special is happening at the institution, and I look
forward to being a part of it."
Valerie Smith, professor of English and director of the
African-American studies program, noted that West and Glaude "are
at different stages in their careers, but both are distinguished and
influential scholars of African-American religious, philosophical and
political thought.
"As teachers and as scholars they will add immeasurably to the
Program in African-American Studies, the Department of Religion, and the
life of the University as a whole," said Smith, who is on leave
from the University this semester.
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Cornel West to Take a Job in New
York—Laurie Goodstein—16 November 2011—Cornel
West, the peripatetic public intellectual and political activist,
plans to finish out a teaching career that has taken him from Yale to
Harvard to Princeton by moving back this coming summer to
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, where he began
as an assistant professor in 1977. Dr. West, the author of 19 books,
including Race Matters, and a ubiquitous television and radio
commentator, said he was taking a significant pay cut to become a
professor of philosophy and Christian practices at Union.
The school, where the eminent
theologian Reinhold Niebuhr taught, is also known as the birthplace of
black theology. James H. Cone, a foremost scholar in that tradition, is
still on the faculty.In an interview from Seattle, on his way to visit
Occupy protesters there, Dr. West said that his liberal politics were
formed in Progressive Baptist churches, and that Union was “the
institutional expression of my core identity as a prophetic Christian.”—NYTimes
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Brother West
Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
By Cornel West
Brother West
is like its author: brilliant, unapologetic, full of passion
yet cool. This poignant memoir traces West’s transformation
from a schoolyard Robin Hood into a progressive cultural
icon. From his youthful investigation of the “death shudder”
to why he embraced his calling of teaching over preaching,
from his three marriages and his two precious children to
his near-fatal bout with prostate cancer, West illuminates
what it means to live as “an aspiring bluesman in a world of
ideas and a jazzman in the life of the mind.” Woven together
with the fibers of his lifelong commitment to the prophetic
Christian tradition that began in Sacramento’s Shiloh
Baptist Church,
Brother West
is a tale of a man courageous enough to be fully human,
living and loving out loud. |
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Michael Eric Dyson to President Obama /
Michael Eric Dyson: To The Young & Disillusioned
Michael Eric Dyson: Obama isn't Moses, he is Pharaoh
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Smiley and West: Obama & Sharpton
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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