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“A FIGURE OF OUR TIMES”

An Interview with Cornel West on W. E. B. Du Bois1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2013

Christa Buschendorf  and
Cornel West
Christa Buschendorf*
Affiliation:
Department of American Studies and Center for North American Research, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Cornel West
Affiliation:
Professor Emeritus, Princeton University; Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York
*
Professor Christa Buschendorf, Institute for English and American Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Grueneburgplatz 1, 60323 Frankfurt, Germany. E-mail: c.buschendorf@em.uni-frankfurt.de
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Extract

This interview is part of a larger project on the Black prophetic tradition and its impact on today's ongoing struggle for justice and equality. We are concerned with the special challenges facing Black public intellectuals and activists, particularly with the impediments deriving from their position as outsiders in society; we consider the philosophical and political voices that helped form their own thinking as well as the social conditions that shaped them; and we reflect on the role of religion in their lives and its specific function in the Black community.2

Type
State of the Discourse
Information
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , Spring 2013 , pp. 261 - 278
Copyright
Copyright © W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research 2013 

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Footnotes

1

This interview was recorded in August, 2010.

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