Cornel West

supporters across the country because of these tragic events. The author’s background shows extensive credibility. Cornel West is a critically acclaimed author and critic for The Guardian, an online publication website; he is a civil rights activist, active member of the Democratic Socialists of America, class of 1943 graduate, and professor at Princeton University. West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University and received his Masters of Arts and Ph. D in Philosophy at Princeton University. Among his twenty novels, West is best known for Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. Along with his books, West has also participated in several documentaries, and spoken word albums, and appeared on talk shows. West has made it his mission to keep Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy alive by professing justice out to the rest…

ability to articulate concepts and deeper understandings moves me. Suddenly, I see clearly that what drives me is to be involved with and support the work of human transformation. Furthermore, my desire for transformation is so strong that I am going back to school to learn how to organize my thoughts, so I may reach and more eloquently touch the human heart. Since I have stepped into this alignment of purpose, I have encountered wonderful and revolutionary wholehearted thinkers such as…

The setting of this performance was the conductor in the center with the trumpets, trombones, and saxophones on the outer left and right of the conductor. The piano was in the front to the left of the conductor as well as a guitar. There were drums to the right of the conductor and the singers were in the center toward the back. The style of the band was an orchestra setup with a jazz sound to the music. The conductor encourage the audience to repeat words he was saying. At some points the…

appear obscure. In ‘The Examined Life” by Cornel West he says the following “Human beings are unable to ever gain any monopoly of truth capital T. We might have access to truth small t, but they’re fallible claims about truth”(West 3). Truth and reality come side by side not because they're easy to realize, but because they are hard to accept. One should always be prepared to acknowledge that their understanding may not always be true. Certain moments in life will reveal who one truly is. In the…

In Race Matter’s Cornel West examines the liberal and conservative approach of racism in America and how it has altered the way democracy is ran. Conservatives, ignore political and economic structures causing various sects of races to face poverty and paranoia. Liberals ignore cultural factors, in where liberalism consciously and purposefully urges upon citizens a certain kind of character that outlines at least minimally the kind of person we are to be, which in turn justifies certain…

In his essay “ Genealogy of Modern Racism” (2002), Cornel West argues that whites have been conditioned to treat blacks inferiorly in beauty, culture and intellectual abilities because of the structures of modern discourse. (P.90) Many writers have mentioned the differences between the blacks and whites but most of them against the idea of the blacks being equal to the whites in any form. Some of the writers are J. J. Winckelmann who portrayed ancient Greece as a world of beautiful bodies.…

suffered due to the mistreatment of people that can’t comprehend change or how people are all different. Of course many people know back than if you didn’t have blue eyes or blonde hair were considered inferior, lower than trash even not human. Many people think that racism doesn’t exist because we have so many different races doing complex things and other high paying jobs. People now have thrown racism under the rug but racism is still a big ‘problem’, Racism has become a complex subject so…

requires personal exploration as well as personal accountability to self and others in the past and in the present, while simultaneously considering the future and honoring the past. Why do academicians look to literature if not to grow and to connect? The works of Emily Dickinson, Cornel West, and Friedrich Nietzsche beautifully illustrate this conclusion, yes, but what…

The reason for this would have been the same as those in migratory societies, practicality. Although the women were no longer restrained by the need to carry infants long distances, and the presence of a crying child would not have had the same effect on domesticated animals as on the hunted prey, they still had to be concerned about the safety of the toddler. Any task taking place while caring for children also had to be interruptible. Men and women had to spend the majority of their time…

around one of the major events of the twentieth century: The fall of the Berlin Wall which marked the end of the Cold War and hastened the downfall of communism in Eastern Europe. The year is 1990. Forty years of the German Democratic Republic have inevitably come to an end. Capitalist West Germany and socialist East Germany have been reunified. Our setting is the post-socialist East Germany. “The winds of change blew on the ruins of our republic”, Alex recounts. The separation between the…