Race Matters 25th Anniversary

<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&#146;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.