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Product Description: 2012 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work—Biography/Autobiography"A powerful and poignant memoir."—Cornel West, from the foreword"John Carlos is an American hero. And finally he has written a memoir to tell us his story—and a powerful story it is...read more
By Cornel West (foreword by)
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9781608462247 | Haymarket Books, December 11, 2012, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: 2012 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work—Biography/Autobiography"A powerful and poignant memoir.

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By Nick Chiles (contributor), Tony Dungy (foreword by) and Etan Thomas
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9780451236739 | 1 edition (New Amer Library, May 1, 2012), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: No Description Available

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Product Description: Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses but homeless families, dwindling opportunities in an increasingly paralyzed nation—these are the realities of 21st-century America, land of the free and home of the new middle class poor...read more
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9781401940638 | Hay House Inc, April 17, 2012, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses but homeless families, dwindling opportunities in an increasingly paralyzed nation—these are the realities of 21st-century America, land of the free and home of the new middle class poor.

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By Cornel West (foreword by)
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9781607811824 | Univ of Utah Pr, April 1, 2012, cover price $39.95

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9780465091072 | Basic Civitas Books, December 1, 2011, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: In this collection of essays, interviews, and profiles, William Banfield reflects on his life as a musician and educator, as he weaves together pieces of cultural criticism and artistry, all the while paying homage to Black music of the last 40 years and beyond...read more
By William C. Banfield and Cornel West (foreword by)
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9780810877863 | Scarecrow Pr, October 7, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In this collection of essays, interviews, and profiles, William Banfield reflects on his life as a musician and educator, as he weaves together pieces of cultural criticism and artistry, all the while paying homage to Black music of the last 40 years and beyond.

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Product Description: Nominated for an NAACP Image Award, Outstanding Literary Work Autobiography/BiographySeen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Yet their show of defiance remains one of the most iconic images of Olympic history and the Black Power movement...read more
By Cornel West (foreword by)
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9781608461271 | Haymarket Books, October 4, 2011, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Nominated for an NAACP Image Award, Outstanding Literary Work Autobiography/BiographySeen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout.

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Product Description: Howard Zinn on Race is Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic. As chairman of the history department at all black women’s Spelman College, Zinn was an outspoken supporter of student activists in the nascent civil rights movement...read more
By Cornel West (introduced by)
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9781609801342 | Reprint edition (Seven Stories Pr, June 14, 2011), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Howard Zinn on Race is Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic.

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Product Description: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does—or should—religion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerning state violence in Israel-Palestine, Judith Butler explores the potential of religious perspectives for renewing cultural and political criticism, while Jürgen Habermas, best known for his seminal conception of the public sphere, thinks through the ambiguous legacy of the concept of "the political" in contemporary theory...read more
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9780231156455 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 2011, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does—or should—religion play in our public lives?

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9780231156462 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 2011, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does—or should—religion play in our public lives?

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Product Description: New York Times­ best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom, the streets, the prisons, or the church, Dr. West’s penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon shining through the darkness for decades...read more
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9781401921897 | Hay House Inc, October 15, 2009, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: New York Times­ best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provocative and admired public intellectuals.

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Product Description: New York Times­ best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom, the streets, the prisons, or the church, Dr. West’s penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon shining through the darkness for decades...read more
By David Ritz (contributor) and Cornel West
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9781401921903 | Hay House Inc, October 15, 2010, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: New York Times­ best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provocative and admired public intellectuals.

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Product Description: “You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people if you don’t serve the people.”   The New York Times bestselling author of Race Matters and Democracy Matters offers provocative, open-hearted wisdom for our times...read more
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9781401921866 | Har/com edition (Hay House Inc, November 1, 2008), cover price $19.95 | About this edition:       The New York Times best-selling author of Race Matters and Democracy Matters offers open-hearted wisdom for our times in this courageous collection of quotations, speech excerpts, letters, philosophy, and photographs that reflect the profound humanity that fuels the passionate public intellectual.

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9781401930769, titled "Hope on a Tightrope: Words & Wisdom" | 3 edition (Hay House Inc, January 1, 2011), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: “You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people.

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9780786440573 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 30, 2008, cover price $35.00

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Product Description: 'The sheer range of West's interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable talking about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and popular-cultural forms.' - Artforum Keeping Faith is a rich, moving and deeply personal collection of essays from one of the leading African American intellectuals of our age...read more
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9780415904865 | Routledge, October 1, 1993, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: In this powerful collection by one of today's leading African American intellectuals, Keeping Faith situates the current position of African Americans, tracing the geneology of the "Afro-American Rebellion" from Martin Luther King to the rise of black revolutionary leftists.

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9780415964814 | 1 edition (Routledge, October 16, 2008), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: 'The sheer range of West's interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable talking about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and popular-cultural forms.
9780415910286 | Reprint edition (Routledge, August 1, 1994), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays by a professor of Afro-American Studies and Religion at Harvard examines the role of the black intellectual, legal theory, the future of liberal thought, while offering advice to the modern generation of African Americans.

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Product Description: Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr...read more
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9780679444053 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1996), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Draws on the ideas of W.

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9780679763789 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1997), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Draws on the ideas of W.

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9781439505120 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Almost one-hundred years ago, W.

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Product Description: Originally published in 1954, Richard Wright's Black Power is an extraordinary nonfiction work by one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth century. An impassioned chronicle of the author's trip to Africa's Gold Coast before it became the free nation of Ghana, it speaks eloquently of empowerment and possibility, and resonates loudly to this day...read more
By Cornel West (introduced by) and Richard Wright
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9780061449451 | Harpercollins, February 1, 2008, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Originally published in 1954, Richard Wright's Black Power is an extraordinary nonfiction work by one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth century.

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By Cornel West (introduced by)
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9780307431264 | Modern Library, December 18, 2007, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What’s the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture a "black" thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty, provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues implicit — and often explicit — in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers of the past...read more
By Derrick Darby (editor), Tommie Shelby (editor) and Cornel West (foreword by)
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9780812695892 | Open Court Pub Co, October 21, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Is there too much violence in hip-hop music?

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Presents a critique of the troubling deterioration of democracy in America in the post-9/11 age of terrorist rage and imperial overreach. West calls for a resurgence of the deep democratic tradition in the United States.
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9781594200298 | Penguin Pr, September 9, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Explores the threats to democracy that exist both in the United States and in the Middle East, discussing the corruption that plagues our own democracy, the failure to foster peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and other crises.

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9780143057031 | Unabridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, September 9, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents a critique of the troubling deterioration of democracy in America in the post-9/11 age of terrorist rage and imperial overreach.

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Product Description: The Idealist showcases the fine art photography of Glen E. Friedman, who many including the Washington Post call "One of the greats of his generation." The Idealist is the work of a true visionary, effortlessly mixing landscapes, still life, and documentary photography, and calling parallel to his own innate idealism through the images, and by including original comments from some of the most progressive, and politically controversial thinkers of our time – Ralph Nader, Reverend Al Sharpton, Ian MacKaye, Cornel West, and Ian Svenonius...read more
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9780964191655 | Burning Flags Pr, April 30, 2004, cover price $61.25 | About this edition: The Idealist showcases the fine art photography of Glen E.

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Product Description: In his major bestseller, Race Matters, philosopher Cornel West burst onto the national scene with his searing analysis of the scars of racism in American democracy. Race Matters has become a contemporary classic, still in print after ten years, having sold more than four hundred thousand copies...read more
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9780786558582 | Penguin/Highbridge, January 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In his major bestseller, Race Matters, philosopher Cornel West burst onto the national scene with his searing analysis of the scars of racism in American democracy.

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Product Description: Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer the discipline into the future. Arguing that the complexity of beliefs, choices, and actions of African Americans need not be reduced to expressions of black religion, West and Glaude call for more careful reflection on the complex relationships of African American religious studies to conceptions of class, gender, sexual orientation, race, empire, and other values that continue to challenge our democratic ideals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. (editor) and Cornel West (editor)
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9780664224592 | 1 edition (Westminster John Knox Pr, November 1, 2003), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer the discipline into the future.

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Product Description: This volume is a selection of significant and previously unpublished essays and short stories by the influential critic of German and American literature and popular culture, James A. Snead. The volume contains innovative essays and notes about African American popular culture, literary criticism and five pieces of short fiction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Kara Keeling (editor), Colin MacCabe (editor), James A. Snead and Cornel West (editor)
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9781403911834 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 14, 2003, cover price $126.00 | About this edition: This volume is a selection of significant and previously unpublished essays and short stories by the influential critic of German and American literature and popular culture, James A.

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Profiles one hundred influential African Americans who helped shape the history of the twentieth century, including revered figures in the fields of music, literature, sports, science, politics, and the civil rights movement.
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9780684864143 | Free Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Profiles one hundred influential African Americans who helped shape the history of the twentieth century, including revered figures in the fields of music, literature, sports, science, politics, and the civil rights movement.

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9780684864150 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, January 8, 2002), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Profiles one hundred influential African Americans who helped shape the history of the twentieth century, including revered figures in the fields of music, literature, sports, science, politics, and the civil rights movement.

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9780743242264 | Free Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: Black Americans are at the heart of the greatest achievements of our history, from music to law, from politics to sports, from literature to religion. Now the two leading African-American intellectuals of our day show us why the twentieth century was "The African-American Century," with one hundred original profiles of the most influential African Americans from W...read more
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9780606242400, titled "African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country" | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $24.96 | About this edition: Black Americans are at the heart of the greatest achievements of our history, from music to law, from politics to sports, from literature to religion.

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