| Edition |
Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Preface 2001: Democracy matters in race matters -- Preface 1993 -- Race matters in twenty-first century American -- Introduction: Race matters -- Nihilism in Black America -- The pitfalls of racial reasoning -- The crisis of Black leadership -- Demystifying the new Black conservatism -- Beyond Affirmative Action: equality and identity -- On Black-Jewish relations -- Black sexuality: the taboo subject -- Malcolm X and Black rage -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
The fundamental litmus test for American democracy-its economy, government, criminal justice system, education, mass media, and culture-remains: how broad and intense are the arbitrary powers used and deployed against black people. In this sense, the problem of the twenty-first century remains the problem of the color line. --from the new PrefaceFirst published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters was a national best-seller, and it has since become a groundbreaking classic on race in America. Race Matters contains West's most powerful essays on the issues relevant to black Americans today: despair, black conservatism, black-Jewish relations, myths about black sexuality, the crisis in leadership in the black community, and the legacy of Malcolm X. And the insights that he brings to these complicated problems remain fresh, exciting, creative, and compassionate. Now more than ever, Race Matters is a book for all Americans, as it helps us to build a genuine multiracial democracy in the new millennium. |
| Note |
"With a new introduction"--Cover. |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
| Subject |
United States -- Race relations.
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United States. |
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Race relations. |
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1975- |
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Since 1975 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: West, Cornel. Race matters. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. Boston : Beacon Press, [2017] 0807008834 (OCoLC)988760635 |
| ISBN |
9780807064344 (electronic book) |
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0807064343 (electronic book) |
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