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Why I Have Come to Support Defunding the Police

By Sharon Brous — 2020

The last few weeks have made it impossible to hide from the truth that Black and white people have fundamentally different experiences with law enforcement in this country.

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Race Matters

First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on race contains Dr.

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Cornel West
2017
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Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America

Keeping Faith is a rich, moving and deeply personal collection of essays from one of the leading African American intellectuals of our age.

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Cornel West
2025
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The Cornel West Reader

Cornel West is one of the nation's premier public intellectuals and one of the great prophetic voices of our era.

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Cornel West
2000
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Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism

In his major bestseller, Race Matters, philosopher Cornel West burst onto the national scene with his searing analysis of the scars of racism in American democracy. Race Matters has become a contemporary classic, still in print after ten years, having sold more than four hundred thousand copies.

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Cornel West
2005
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.

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Angela Y. Davis (Authors), Cornel West (Preface)
2016
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow.

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Michelle Alexander, Cornel West (foreword)
2020
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