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Cornel West
Cornel West 0000000123215424 Join us in a conversations with Cornel West, at Harvard Bookstore on March 8, 2021 Born on June 2, 1953, Dr. Cornel West is a highly esteemed intellectual and professor at...
The Cornel West Reader
The Cornel West Reader Cornel West 9780465091102 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books Cornel West is one of the nation’s premier public intellectuals and one of the great prophetic voices of o...
Cornel West
Cornel West Kam Williams Interview Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 2, 1953, Princeton Professor Cornel Ronald West is one of America's most gifted and provocative...
Cornel West and Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Cornel West and Eddie S. Glaude Jr. MULTIPLE Cornel West and Eddie S. Glaude Jr. are influential figures, renowned for their contributions in academia and social commentary. Cornel West (left), Eddie...
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism Cornel West 9780299119607 Nonfiction University of Wisconsin Press University of Wisconsin Press Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cor...
Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir Cornel West 9781401921903 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provoc...
Brother West: Living And Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
Brother West: Living And Loving Out Loud, A Memoir Cornel West 9781401921897 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provoc...
Black Prophetic Fire
Black Prophetic Fire Cornel West 9780807003527 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. ...
Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America
Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America Cornel West 9780807009437 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press ’Cornel West is one of the most authentic, brilliant, prophetic, and healing...
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism Cornel West 9780143035831 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House In his major bestseller, Race Matters, philosopher Cornel West burst on...
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America Cornel West 9781138147157 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge ’The sheer range of West’s interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally...
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America Cornel West 9780415964814 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge ’The sheer range of West’s interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally...
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism Cornel West 9781594200298 Nonfiction Penguin Press HC, The Penguin Random House In his major bestseller, Race Matters, philosopher Cornel West ...
The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought
The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought Cornel West 9780853458173 Nonfiction Monthly Review Press Monthly Review Press In this fresh, original analysis of Marxist thought, Cornel West makes a signif...
Race Matters
Race Matters Cornel West 9780807008836 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction First published in 1993,...
Race Matters (hardcover)
Race Matters (hardcover) Cornel West 9780807041222 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introductionFirst published in 19...
Prophesy Deliverance!
Prophesy Deliverance! Cornel West 9780664223434 Nonfiction Westminster John Knox Press Presbyterian Publishing Corporation In this, his premiere work, Cornel West provides readers with a new unders...
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America Cornel West 9780415904865 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge In this powerful collection by one of today’s leading African American intellectuals, Keeping Fai...
Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times
Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times Cornel West 9781567510041 Nonfiction Common Courage Press Common Courage Press Book by West, Cornel
Prophetic Reflections: Notes on Race and Power in America (Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism, Vol. Two)
Prophetic Reflections: Notes on Race and Power in America (Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism, Vol. Two) Cornel West 9781567510065 Nonfiction Common Courage Press Common Courage Press Book by We...
Conversations with Cornel West
Conversations with Cornel West Teodros Kiros with Cornel West 9781569026885 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Join us in a conversations with Cornel West, at Harvard...
Hope On A Tightrope: Words And Wisdom
Hope On A Tightrope: Words And Wisdom Cornel West 9781401930769 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Includes a free CD! The New York Times best-selling author of Race Matters and Democracy Ma...
Spirits of the Passage
Spirits of the Passage Cornel West 9780684818191 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. In a watery grave off the coast of Florida lies the earliest slave ship ever recovered. The English-...
Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin
Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin Cornel West 9780399140464 Nonfiction Putnam Adult Penguin Random House Examining the issues that have united Blacks and Jews in the past and now separate them, t...
Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture
Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture Cornel West 9780802807212 Nonfiction William B. Eerdmans Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company "This collection of writin...
Prophesy Deliverance!: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity
Prophesy Deliverance!: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity Cornel West 9780664244477 Nonfiction Westminster John Knox Press Presbyterian Publishing Corporation Examines the history of Afro-Am...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West MULTIPLE Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West are renowned scholars and authors, contributing significantly to African-American literature and philosophy. Henr...
Teodros Kiros with Cornel West
Teodros Kiros with Cornel West MULTIPLE Join us in a conversations with Cornel West, at Harvard Bookstore on March 8, 2021 Teodros Kiros is a professor at Berklee College of Music and a Dubois Fellow ...
Tavis Smiley and Cornel West
Tavis Smiley and Cornel West MULTIPLE Tavis Smiley and Cornel West are two of the most prominent African American public intellectuals and media figures of the early 21st century. Through their co...
Cornel West & Darryl Pinckney on Ferguson, MO (Oct. 22, 2014)
Cornel West & Darryl Pinckney on Ferguson, MO (Oct. 22, 2014) Author Interviews Cornel West (https://aalbc.it/cornelbook) and Darryl Pinckney (https://aalbc.it/darrylbook) discuss the financialization...
Composition And Cornel West: Notes Toward A Deep Democracy
Composition And Cornel West: Notes Toward A Deep Democracy Keith Gilyard 9780809328543 Nonfiction Southern Illinois University Press Southern Illinois University Press Composition and Cornel West: Not...
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology Cornel West and Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780664224592 Nonfiction Westminster John Knox Press Presbyterian Publishing Corporation Believing that African Am...
Dr. Cornel West at the 2009 National Book Club Conference
Dr. Cornel West at the 2009 National Book Club Conference Literary Events For more information visit https://aalbc.com/authors/cornel.htm Dr. Cornel West talks about why reading matters, love and Dr....
The Future of the Race
The Future of the Race Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West 9780679763789 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented te...
The Rich And The Rest Of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
The Rich And The Rest Of Us: A Poverty Manifesto Tavis Smiley and Cornel West 9781401940638 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses ...
Dr. West’s Prognosis for the Country's Prospects
Dr. West’s Prognosis for the Country's Prospects Kam Williams Interview Dr. Cornel West is a prominent and provocative public intellectual dedicated to democracy. Currently the Class of 19...
Darryl Pinckney
Darryl Pinckney 0000000063076310 Darryl Pinckney, born in 1953, is an acclaimed American novelist, playwright, and essayist. Educated at Columbia University, he regularly contributes to renowned publ...
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. NONE Join a Conversation with Go On Girl! Book Club and Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Saturday, February 20, 2021. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is a renowned professor at Princeton University, speci...
The Radical King (King Legacy)
The Radical King (King Legacy) Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780807034521 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X“The r...
Examined Life
Examined Life Kam Williams examin9.jpg Film Review Cornel West & Company Weigh-In on the State of American Culture Examined Life Click to order via Amazon Unrated Runn...
In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays
In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays Farah Jasmine Griffin 9780393355772 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom brings tog...
A Video Slide Show of Tavis Smiley's SmileyBooks Reception in NYC 2007
A Video Slide Show of Tavis Smiley's SmileyBooks Reception in NYC 2007 Book Spotlights A slide show video of photographs taken during reception hosted by Tavis Smiley in NYC. Here is a video of Tavis'...
The Black Agenda
The Black Agenda Robert Fleming Book Review Who was Glen Ford? If you ask that question of some of the best critical thinkers in the Black community, they would say Ford was one of the most capabl...
SmileyBooks
SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Bertelsmann Tavis Smiley, founder and publisher of SmileyBooks, hosted a reception October 2, 2007, in New York City to introduce his new company presiden...
Remembering Ossie Davis, With Love
Remembering Ossie Davis, With Love Jamie Walker Article “In the light of Africa, there is Ossie Davis.” —Attallah Shabazz
Race Matters
Race Matters Kirby Roy III Book Review Reading and evaluating the overriding themes in Cornel West’s Race Matters, which was published in 1993, given the context of events that have occurred si...
Tavis Smiley - The "FAIL UP" Interview
Tavis Smiley - The "FAIL UP" Interview Kam Williams Interview Tavis Reflects on Life Lessons From his celebrated conversations with world figures to his work to inspire the next generation ...
Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future
Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future George Yancy 9781538176429 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield Award-winning author, scholar, and social visio...
Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice
Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster 9781982180393 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A riveting exploration of how...
Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America
Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America Michael Eric Dyson 9781250135971 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Sto...
On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis
On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis George Yancy 9780190498559 Nonfiction Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press With the recent barrage of racially motivated killings, violent...
Not Our President: New directions from the Pushed Out, The Others and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America
Not Our President: New directions from the Pushed Out, The Others and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America Haki Madhubuti and Lasana D. Kazembe 9780883783726 Nonfiction Third World Press Third...
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life bell hooks 9781138218765 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to disc...
Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights Open Media)
Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights Open Media) Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780872866751 Nonfiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers "Revolutionary love, re...
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue)
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue) John Lewis and Michael D'Orso 9781476797717 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. An award-winning national bestseller, Walking w...
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Third Ed. Vol. 1
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Third Ed. Vol. 1 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie A. Smith 9780393923698 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. An excitin...
Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge
Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge Etan Thomas and Nick Chiles 9780451414892 Nonfiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House In Fatherhood, beloved NBA player, poet, children’s advocate, and d...
Unfinished Business: Black Women, The Black Church, And The Struggle To Thrive In America
Unfinished Business: Black Women, The Black Church, And The Struggle To Thrive In America Keri Day 9781570759819 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books Day presents a striking portrayal of poverty, with a...
As I Run Toward Africa: A Memoir
As I Run Toward Africa: A Memoir Molefi Kete Asante 9781612050768 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge As I Run Toward Africa is Molefi Kete Asante’s memoir of his extraordinary life. He takes the reader on...
Who’s Afraid Of Post-Blackness?: What It Means To Be Black Now
Who’s Afraid Of Post-Blackness?: What It Means To Be Black Now Touré 9781439177556 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the age of Obama, racial attitudes have become more complicated and ...
Julianne Malveaux: The “Surviving and Thriving” Interview
Julianne Malveaux: The “Surviving and Thriving” Interview Kam Williams Interview Dr. Julianne Malveaux is the 15th President of Bennett College for Women. Recognized for her progressive and...
Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era Houston Baker Jr. 9780231139656 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Houston A. Baker Jr. ...
The First: President Barack Obama’s Road To The White House As Originally Reported By Roland S. Martin
The First: President Barack Obama’s Road To The White House As Originally Reported By Roland S. Martin Roland S. Martin 9780883783160 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Noted African Ameri...
Barack Obama at Harlem's Apollo Theater, November 29th 2007
Barack Obama at Harlem's Apollo Theater, November 29th 2007 Troy Johnson Article Barack Obama http://aalbc.com/authors/barack_obama.htm Barack Obama hosted a fund raiser at Harlem's "World ...
Barack Obama in Harlem, Nov. 29th 2007 (Part 2 of 2)
Barack Obama in Harlem, Nov. 29th 2007 (Part 2 of 2) Author Interviews For more information visit https://aalbc.com/authors/barack_obama.htm Barack Obama hosted a fund raiser at Harlem's "World Famous...
Barack Obama in Harlem, NY. Nov. 29th (part 1 of 2)
Barack Obama in Harlem, NY. Nov. 29th (part 1 of 2) Author Interviews For more information visit https://aalbc.com/authors/barack_obama.htm Barack Obama hosted a fund raiser at Harlem's "World Famous"...
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk about Sexuality and Intimacy
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk about Sexuality and Intimacy Tricia Rose 9780312423728 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press-3PL Macmillan Publishers "A powerful and pioneering work. For the first time we h...
Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land
Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land Randall Robinson 9780525947585 Nonfiction Dutton Adult Penguin Random House Bestselling author Randall Robinson, one of our nation’s...
Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope from Black America
Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope from Black America Tavis Smiley 9780385721691 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House In Keeping the Faith, nationally acclaimed author an...
Authentically Black: Essays For The Black Silent Majority
Authentically Black: Essays For The Black Silent Majority John McWhorter 9781592400010 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House Picking up where the bestselling Losing the Race left off, this penetrating...
Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism
Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780226298221 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press During the late 1960s ...
Till Victory Is Won: Famous Black Quotations from the NAACP
Till Victory Is Won: Famous Black Quotations from the NAACP Janet Cheatham Bell 9780743428255 Nonfiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Taking its title from the moving lyrics of the...
Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience
Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience Manning Marable 9780231114769 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press What constitutes bl...
The Afrocentric Idea, Revised and Expanded Edition
The Afrocentric Idea, Revised and Expanded Edition Molefi Kete Asante 9781566395953 Nonfiction Temple University Press Temple University Press This new edition of "The Afrocentric Idea" boldly confron...
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris 9780195065107 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Here indeed ...
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen 9780345383174 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House "[AN] OUTSTANDING COLLECTION…The powerful ...
Tyranny of the Majority: Funamental Fairness in Representative Democracy
Tyranny of the Majority: Funamental Fairness in Representative Democracy Lani Guinier 9780029131695 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press "At last…the public hearing she was denied…These essays reveal keen...
Belly Song and Other Poems
Belly Song and Other Poems Etheridge Knight 9780910296885 Poetry Broadside Press Broadside Press Here indeed is the pantheon of African American writers—Phillis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth, Frederick...
Julianne Malveaux
Julianne Malveaux 0000000021068830 Dr. Julianne Malveaux is a renowned economist, author, and commentator, lauded for her contributions to public discourse on race, culture, and gender. Currently the...
Obari Cartman
Obari Cartman NONE Dr. Obari Adéye Cartman is a Chicago-based psychologist, educator, and author, specializing in issues concerning mental health, cultural identity, and manhood. He works as a resto...
Hasani Pettiford
Hasani Pettiford NONE Hasani Pettiford, renowned speaker, author, and TV personality, is known for his dynamic teachings on success, wealth creation, and interpersonal relationships. As the founder o...
Jetta Grace Martin
Jetta Grace Martin NONE Jetta Grace Martin is a author from the San Francisco Bay Area. Jetta is also a dancer, performer, and choreographer who has performed nationally and internationally. Jetta Gr...
David Ritz
David Ritz 0000000073664036 David Ritz (born December 2, 1943) has written novels, biographies, magazine articles, and over a hundred liner notes for artists such as Aretha Franklin and Nat King Col...
Amena Brown
Amena Brown NONE Amena Brown is a writer, spoken word poet, and performing artist whose work blends storytelling, poetry, and humor. She is the author of five spoken word albums and two nonfiction b...
The Rich and the Rest of Us
The Rich and the Rest of Us Kam Williams Book Review “This book serves as a counterpoint to [those] who luxuriate in denying the reality of America’s poor… Poverty of all colors ...
Debating the Black Agenda, a panel discussion - Video Clip
Debating the Black Agenda, a panel discussion - Video Clip Kam Williams Interview MSNBC PRESS RELEASE On Saturday, April 17th, msnbc will carry portions of the National Action Network's...
The Wild, Wild Dr. West
The Wild, Wild Dr. West Kam Williams Interview One of America’s most provocative public intellectuals, Dr. Cornel Ronald West has been a champion for ...
From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender
From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender Curdella Forbes 9789766401719 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies...
Dorothy West
Dorothy West 0000000117719538 Dorothy West (1907-1998) was an active participant in the Harlem Renaissance and the last surviving member. Known for her short stories, she debuted with her novel 'The ...
The Dorothy West Marthas Vineyard: Stories, Essays And Reminiscences By Dorothy West Writing In The Vineyard Gazette
The Dorothy West Marthas Vineyard: Stories, Essays And Reminiscences By Dorothy West Writing In The Vineyard Gazette Dorothy West, Renae Nadine Shackelford, and James Robert Saunders 9780786408924 Non...
Allen Bernard West
Allen Bernard West NONE Allen Bernard West is a decorated military veteran, former US Congressman, and notable contributor to media and policy organizations. His military legacy spans four generation...
Larry Linwell Rowe
Larry Linwell Rowe NONE Larry Linwell Rowe is a lawyer, historian, and former West Virginia legislator with degrees from West Virginia University. Based in Old Malden, he's known for his research on ...
Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal
Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal Olive Senior 9789766404574 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press The popular ...
Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography Of Class And Color
Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography Of Class And Color Cherene Sherrard-Johnson 9780813551678 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press Dorothy West is best known as one of the you...
How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years Of Economic Folly--And The Stark Choices Ahead
How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years Of Economic Folly--And The Stark Choices Ahead Dambisa Moyo 9780374173258 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers In How the West Was Lost, the New...
Mae West: An Icon In Black And White
Mae West: An Icon In Black And White Jill Watts 9780195161120 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press "Why don’t you come up and see me sometime?" Mae West invited and promptly capt...
Literary Sisters: Dorothy West And Her Circle, A Biography Of The Harlem Renaissance
Literary Sisters: Dorothy West And Her Circle, A Biography Of The Harlem Renaissance Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis 9780813551463 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press Har...
Making West Indian Literature
Making West Indian Literature Mervyn Morris 9789766371746 Nonfiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers "West Indian Literature, as a body of work, is a fairly recent phenomenon; and literary...