Restoring hope : conversations on the future of Black America / Cornel West ; edited by Kelvin Shawn Sealey
- Bib ID:
- 110500
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- West, Cornel
- Description:
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- Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c1997
- xx. 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0807009423 (cloth)
- Summary:
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Perhaps the most prominent public intellectual of our time, Cornel West asks nine of America's most influential artists, scholars, and public figures about the sources of hope among African Americans today: "How can we be realistic about what this nation is about and still sustain hope, acknowledging that we're up against so much?"
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Preface / Cornel West
- Introduction / Kelvin Shawn Sealey
- Harry Belafonte
- Bill Bradley
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault
- The Reverend Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., and the Reverend Dr. James M. Washington
- Wynton Marsalis
- Patricia Williams
- Haki Madhubuti
- Maya Angelou
- "Catch the Fire" / Sonia Sanchez
- The Obsidian Society.
- Notes:
- "A project of the Obsidian Society."
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- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1997
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