Keeping Faith Philosophy and Race in America [Hardcover]

In this powerful collection by one of today's leading African American intellectuals, Keeping Faithsituates the current position of African Americans, tracing the geneology of the Afro-American Rebellion from Martin Luther King to the rise of black revolutionary leftists. In Cornel West's hands issues of race and freedom are inextricably tied to questions of philosophy and, above all, to a belief in the power of the human spirit.
Cornel Westis Professor of Afro-American Studies and Religion at Harvard University. He lectures widely and appears frequently on television, including Conversationswith Bill Moyers.