Race Matters, 25th Anniversary: With a New Introduction

Race Matters, 25th Anniversary: With a New Introduction

<b>The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introduction</b><br><br>First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, <i>Race Matters</i> became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on race contains Dr. West€s most incisive essays on the issues relevant to black Americans, including the crisis in leadership in the Black community, Black conservatism, Black-Jewish relations, myths about Black sexuality, and the legacy of Malcolm X. The insights Dr. West brings to these complex problems remain relevant, provocative, creative, and compassionate.<br><br>In a new introduction for the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Dr. West argues that we are in the midst of a spiritual blackout characterized by imperial decline, racial animosity, and unchecked brutality and terror as seen in Baltimore, Ferguson, and Charlottesville. Calling for a moral and spiritual awakening, Dr. West finds hope in the collective and visionary resistance exemplified by the Movement for Black Lives, Standing Rock, and the Black freedom tradition.<br><br>Now more than ever, <i>Race Matters</i> is an essential book for all Americans, helping us to build a genuine multiracial democracy in the new millennium.