Questão de raça tem a força inusitada de um best-seller escrito em tom de sermão profético por um observador participante que é a um só tempo acadêmico, negro, socialista e cristão. O distanciamento propiciado por sua posição polivalente permite que ele critique tanto o economicismo dos liberais como o moralismo dos conservadores, o isolacionismo dos nacionalistas e afro-centristas e a discriminação contra mulheres e gays no interior das próprias comunidades negras. "Restabelecendo a figura do intelectual público nos Estados Unidos, West apela à velha e desprezada força das ideias. Mais do que táticas de ação imediata, este livro oferece uma perspectiva original e polêmica dos conflitos culturais que dilaceram a América. Por mais que sua retórica profética possa nos causar estranhamento, é por meio dela que ele corajosamente enfrenta a pobreza dos espíritos sectários propondo uma noção de multiculturalismo que, para além da segregação das diferenças, permita alguma transcendência." Esther Hamburger
Questão de raça -
Cornel West
Companhia das Letras
1994
124 páginas
4h 8m
ISBN-10: 8571643709
Português Brasileiro
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Um bom livro para quem está afim de abrir a mente sobre racismo.
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Cornel West
Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and obtained his MA and PhD in philosophy at Princeton. He has taught at Union Theological Seminary (where he has recently returned to teach), Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Paris. He has written nineteen books and edited thirteen books. He is best known for his classic Race Matters, published by Beacon Press in 1993. His latest books are Black Prophetic Fire, which offers a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders (Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells) and The Radical King, a collection of MLK’s writings curated and introduced by Prof. West to reclaim Dr. King’s prophetic and radical vision as both a civil rights leader and—more broadly—as a human right activist. Both books were published by Beacon Press. Cornel West appears frequently on Real Time with Bill Maher, The Colbert Report, CNN and C-SPAN, and he makes numerous appearances speaking to audiences large and small on subjects ranging from racial justice and queer rights to climate justice. Prof. West has appeared in over twenty-five documentaries and films, including Examined Life, Call & Response, Sidewalk, and Stand. He has also made three spoken-word albums, including Never Forget, collaborating with Prince, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Talib Kweli, KRS-One, and the late Gerald Levert. His recent spoken-word interludes were featured on Terence Blanchard’s Choices (which won the Grand Prix in France for the best jazz album of the year for 2009). He has recently been deeply involved in the Black Lives Matter protests and was among those arrested in Ferguson in 2015. Cornel West has a passion to communicate in writings and orations, through music and film, and in solidarity with groups and faith communities committed to justice in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.—a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.
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