Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope : New Essays on the Work of Cornel We...

by Barbara Will

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Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope : New Essays on the Work of Cornel West, Hardcover by Will, Barbara (EDT), ISBN 1512824070, ISBN-13 9781512824070, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Thirty years have passed since Cornel West’s book Race Matters rose to the top of the bestseller lists in 1993. Yet his book remains as relevant as ever to American culture—even more so, if one considers its influence on contemporary racial justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, prison justice, and the fight for police reform. Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope, an edited volume of essays by leading scholars in Black studies, religious studies, and social justice history, looks back to the original 1993 text and forward into the future of racial understanding and healing in our current century, responding to Dr. West’s own repeated insistence that we can only understand our present and future by looking back. By reengaging with West’s book at this seminal moment, Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope offers new points of entry into the thorny issues that the 1993 text addressed: the challenge of leadership in a culture marked by the legacy of white supremacy; the limited value of liberal affirmative action programs in promoting the affirmation of Black humanity; the dangerous seductions of African American conservatism and the question of Black self-regard (what West called “black nihilism”); the necessity and difficulty of cross-race solidarity and cross-religious affini

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2023
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781512824070
• Condition: Fine

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