Cornel West
At a glance:
- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
- Categories: Philosophy, Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers, Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Teaching, Teachers
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, African American History
Article abstract: West, an advocate of the interpretation of philosophical pragmatism that he terms “prophetic pragmatism,” holds that an amalgamation of Christianity and Marxism can overcome white racism and offer hope to the black community.
Early Life
Cornel Ronald West was born to a civilian U.S. Air Force administrator, Clifton Louis West, Jr., and his wife, Irene Bias West, an elementary schoolteacher and principal. The couple’s older son, Clifton Louis III, remembers his brother as a gregarious youth who liked to go to two or three parties...
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