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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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Cornel West
As Angry Black Man
By Marvin
X
"Heaven is at the feet of your mother."
--Prophet Muhammad
Cornel West discussed his
latest book
Living and Loving Outloud, a memoir, before
an overflow audience at Barnes and Noble, Jack London
Square this evening. Looking a little tattered and tired
from 13 Bay Area book signings today, West recounted his
childhood in Sacramento and the Bay Area. Oakland was
where he last saw his father who passed away 15 years
ago.
In the audience was his
mother, brother Cliff and first cousin Fuad Satterfield.
West praised his mother and father, claiming all that he
is comes from their love and nurturing. He chided those
who think they are self made. No one is self made, he
said. We all come from the roots of those who came
before us and paved the way. He said Malcolm X was shown
love by
Elijah
Muhammad and that love gave Malcolm the power to
become the great man we know.
At one point, West went
over to his mother seated on the front row and kissed
her. She took a napkin and wiped his sweat dripping
forehead. He told how the community nurtured him into
the genius he is today, although noting he refused to
salute the flag in the third grade because a relative
was hanged in the South and wrapped in the American
flag. He was put out of school but when tested his IQ
was 160, so he left the Chocolate school for a Vanilla
education.
In college he met St. Clair Drake,
Martin Kilson
and other intellectuals who saw his potential and
mentored him.
Today he claims to be an angry black man, as angry as he
was in the third grade when he refused to salute the
flag, for he is determined to fight for social justice.
But we wonder how angry can a man be who is a tenured
professor at Princeton University, on the lecture
circuit at $20,000 per speech, and with a plethora of
published books on the bestseller list.
Maybe we can understand his
anger by recalling the words of the great
scholar/activist
W.E.B.
Du Bois
when he stood before a million people in
China's Tennimin Square being introduced by Chairman
Mao. After Mao praise Du Bois for all his
accomplishments, Du Bois, with tears in his eyes, said,
"Thank you, Chairman Mao, but in my country I am just a
nigger."
Cornell West Interview
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Corrupt Pan African leadership
By Marvin X Jackmon
The sad truth is that black
leadership throughout Pan Africa is reactionary at best,
with almost no authentic revolutionary leadership
dedicated to and supported by the masses.
As a result, the leadership
is corrupt, self-serving and short lived although there
are a plethora of presidents for life throughout Pan
Africa, presidents and politicians for life, but really
for the death of their people, the death of dreams,
hopes, desires, wants, needs.
Right now in the South black leadership is under
indictment mostly for corruption, educators, mayors,
city councilpersons, ministers, all in criminal
proceedings because of fraud, greed, and selfishness,
opportunism.
This is a leadership
addicted to white supremacy. Even up north is no
different. Newark, New Jersey has never had a righteous
black mayor, all have been indicted for corruption.
In Harlem, Charlie Rangel
and his crew sold out Harlem to gentrification, and if
and when they don't go down behind money (like the
nigguh in Louisiana with $90,000 in his freezer) they go
down behind pussy like the mayor of Detroit.
But we can't blame black leadership when the people
claim to see nothing, say nothing and do nothing. The
other night in Oakland, Cornel West said we must
respect President Obama, but we must also correct him
when he takes a reactionary position, especially
contrary to our interests. In other words, if you say
nothing, do nothing, you get what you deserve, rotten,
reactionary leadership. But pressure will burst the
water pipe. No struggle, no progress. What did Garvey
say, the world is moving against all unorganized people.
Get organized, starting in your house, relatives,
friends, community, nation, world.
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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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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 Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great
Migration
By Isabel Wilkerson
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, a
sharecropper's wife, left Mississippi
for Milwaukee in 1937, after her cousin
was falsely accused of stealing a white
man's turkeys and was almost beaten to
death. In 1945, George Swanson Starling,
a citrus picker, fled Florida for Harlem
after learning of the grove owners'
plans to give him a "necktie party" (a
lynching). Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
made his trek from Louisiana to
California in 1953, embittered by "the
absurdity that he was doing surgery for
the United States Army and couldn't
operate in his own home town." Anchored
to these three stories is Pulitzer
Prize–winning journalist Wilkerson's
magnificent, extensively researched
study of the "great migration," the
exodus of six million black Southerners
out of the terror of Jim Crow to an
"uncertain existence" in the North and
Midwest. Wilkerson deftly incorporates
sociological and historical studies into
the novelistic narratives of Gladney,
Starling, and Pershing settling in new
lands, building anew, and often finding
that they have not left racism behind.
The drama, poignancy, and romance of a
classic immigrant saga pervade this
book, hold the reader in its grasp, and
resonate long after the reading is done.
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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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