Cornel West on Black prophetic fire

The Resource Cornel West on Black prophetic fire
Label
Cornel West on Black prophetic fire
Statement of responsibility
in dialogue with and edited by Christa Buschendorf
Title variation
Black prophetic fire
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"Celebrated intellectual and activist Cornel West offers an unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides 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 Wells-Barnett. West examines the impact of these men and women on their own eras and across the decades. He not only rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates but also their fault lines. West finds that Douglass and, to some extent, Du Bois fall short of the high standards he holds them to, while King has been sanitized and even 'Santaclausified, ' rendering him less radical. By providing new insights that humanize all of these well-known figures, West takes an important step in rekindling the Black prophetic fire so essential in the age of Obama"--
Assigning source
Provided by publisher
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
  • 920.009296073
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
E185.96
LC item number
.W47 2014
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by DC Public Library System. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.