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Article: Cornel West: talking about race matters. (race discrimination and white supremacy)(interview with Colonel West, director of Princeton University's Afro-American Studies program) (Interview)
- Article from:
- The Black Collegian
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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Cornel West speaks like a real "down brother," sporting an accent that blends a taste of Southern homeyness with a blast of New York street hardness. West seems somehow to have effectively mastered the dialects of both academia and the proverbial street corner deftness.
As director of Princeton University's Afro-American Studies program and professor of religion, West typifies what some observers are labeling the new, hip, "public intellectuals," academicians who step from behind the ivy-covered walls of academia to stand before the graffiti-covered walls of urban America.
This past summer, West's latest book Race Matters hit the national bestseller ...