Cornel West
(see also African-American Movements)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Nichols, John. "Cornell West [interview]," Progressive (1/97).
West, Cornel. "Left strategies: a view from Afro-America," Socialist Review 86 (1986):41-49.
__________. “Critique & mercy in the cross of Christ,” Other Side (7-8/93):8-14.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Curry, George E. (ed.) The Affirmative Action Debate (Reading MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996).
Hewlett, Sylvia Ann; Nancy Rankin & Cornel West (eds.) Taking Parenting Public: The Case for a New Social Movement (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
Hooks, Belle & Cornel West. Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (Boston: South End, 1991).
Lerner, Michael & Cornel West. Jews & Blacks: Let the Healing Begin (NY: Putnam's, 1995).
__________Jews & Blacks: A Dialogue on Race, Religion & Culture in America (NY: Penguin, 1996).
Mangabeira, Roberto & Cornel West. The Future of American Progressivism: An Intitiative for Political & Economic Reform (Boston: Beacon, 1998).
Rajchman, John & Cornel West (eds.) Post-Analytic Philosophy (NY: Columbia, 1985).
Salzman, Jack; David Lionel Smith & Cornel West (eds.) Encyclopedia of African-American Culture & History (NY: Macmillan, 1996).
__________ & Cornel West (eds.) Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the US (NY: Oxford, 1997).
West, Cornel. Religion & the Left (NY: Monthly Review, 1984).
__________. The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (Madison: U. of Wisconsin, 1989).
__________. Keeping Faith: Philosophy & Race in America (NY: Routledge, 1993).
__________. Beyond Eurocentrism & Multiculturalism (Monroe ME: Common Courage, 1993).
__________. The Cornel West Reader (NY: Basic Civitas, 1999).
__________. Race Matters (Boston: Beacon, 2001).
__________. Prophesy Deliverance! An African-American Revolutionary Christianity (Louisville KY: Westminster John Knox, 2002).
__________. Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (NY: Barnes & Noble, 2004).
Wood, Mark David. Cornel West & the Politics of Prophetic Pragmatism (Urbana: U. of Illinois, 2001).
In the Library: Fiction
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
The Journey: Sketches of My Culture
Film & Video
"Ralph Ellison" [2001], dir. Avon Kirkland, 87m. From California Newsreel.
"Religion, Rap & the Crisis of Black Leadership" [1994], dir. Gail Pellett, 30m. From Films for the Humanities & Sciences.