Cornel West
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Born | Cornel Ronald West June 2, 1953 Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. |
Education | Harvard University (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD) |
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Political party | Independent (since 2023)[5] Justice For All Party (since 2024)[a] |
Other political affiliations | Green (2023)[6][7] People's (2023) Democratic Socialists of America (since 1982)[8][9][b] |
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Website | cornelwest |
Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, theologian, political activist, social critic, actor, and
West is an outspoken voice in left-wing politics in the United States. During his career, he has held professorships and fellowships at Harvard University, Yale University, Union Theological Seminary, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, Pepperdine University, and the University of Paris.[21] He is a frequent commentator on politics and social questions in many media outlets.[22]
From 2010 through 2013, West co-hosted the radio program Smiley and West with
West is a third party candidate in the 2024 presidential election. After declaring his run with the People's Party in June 2023, he shortly thereafter announced he also was seeking the nomination of the Green Party.[6][7] In October 2023, he announced he was again switching his affiliation, and is running as an independent candidate.[29]
Early life and education
West was born on June 2, 1953, in Tulsa, Oklahoma,[30] and grew up in Sacramento, California, where he graduated from John F. Kennedy High School. His mother, Irene Rayshell (Bias), was a teacher and principal. His father, Clifton Louis West Jr., was a general contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense.[31] His grandfather Clifton L. West Sr. was pastor of the Tulsa Metropolitan Baptist Church.[32] Irene B. West Elementary School in Elk Grove, California, is named after his mother.[33]
As a teen, West marched in
In 1970, after graduation from high school, he enrolled at Harvard College and took classes taught by the philosophers Robert Nozick and Stanley Cavell. In 1973, West was graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in Near Eastern languages and civilization.[35] He credits Harvard with exposing him to a broader range of ideas and that he was influenced by his professors as well as the Black Panther Party (BPP). West says his Christianity prevented him from joining the BPP, instead choosing to work in local breakfast, prison, and church programs.[36] After completing his undergraduate work at Harvard, West enrolled at Princeton University, where he received Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees in 1980, completing a dissertation under the supervision of Raymond Geuss and Sheldon Wolin.[3] He became the first African American to graduate from Princeton with a PhD degree in philosophy.[37]
At Princeton, West was heavily influenced by the
Career
Academic appointments
In his late 20s, he returned to Harvard as a
He then returned to Union Theological Seminary for one year before going to Princeton to become a professor of religion and director of the program in
West left Harvard after a widely publicized 2002 dispute with the university's president, Lawrence Summers.[43][44] That year, West returned to Princeton, where he helped found the Center for African American studies in 2006. In 2012, West left Princeton and returned to the institution where he began his teaching career, Union Theological Seminary.[45] His departure from Princeton was quite amicable. He continued to teach occasional courses at Princeton in an emeritus capacity as the Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies.[46]
West returned to Harvard in November 2016, leaving Union Theological Seminary for a nontenured position as Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy. He was appointed jointly at the Harvard Divinity School and the
In February 2021, reports circulated that West was denied consideration for
Is Harvard a place for a free Black man like myself whose Christian faith and witness put equal value on Palestinian and Jewish babies – like all babies – and reject all occupations as immoral?
On July 1, 2021, West rejoined the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan, holding the prestigious Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair. Affiliated with Columbia University, since 1928, Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York has served as the Columbia University constituent faculty of theology.
The recipient of more than 20 honorary degrees and an
West has been compared to W. E. B. Du Bois as a prolific African-American thinker and has been cited as "[p]erhaps the most influential contemporary recover of Du Bois".[59] By establishing West within Du Bois's tradition of racial thought, scholars emphasize the similarities in their intellectual positions and their aesthetic presences. They crafted their physical attire to match that of disciplined men of the black race and both Du Bois and West often wore multiple-piece suits and ties. Their modest clothing choices similarly reflected Du Bois's belief in "the mind and the body as disciplined and contained".[60]
West has been widely cited in the popular press.[61] His scholarship has been criticized as well as praised; The New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier called West's writing "sectarian, humorless, pedantic, and self-endeared".[62]
In 1997, West was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society,[63] and in 1999, to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[21]
Broadcast, film, and recording
West appears as Councillor West in both
West has made several appearances in documentary films, such as 2008's Examined Life, a documentary featuring several academics discussing philosophy in real-world contexts. West, "driving through Manhattan, ... compares philosophy to jazz and blues, reminding us how intense and invigorating a life of the mind can be".[66] He also appears in conversation with Bill Withers in the 2009 documentary Still Bill.
West has made frequent appearances on the political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher.[67]
A character based on West and events in his career appeared in the
In May 2012, West guest-starred in the sixth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, "What Will Happen to the Gang Next Year?".[69]
West recorded a recitation of John Mellencamp's song "Jim Crow" for inclusion on the singer's box set On the Rural Route 7609 in 2009.[70]
In 2010, he completed recording with the Cornel West Theory, a
He also has released several hip-hop-soul-spoken word albums. In 2001, West released his first album, Sketches of My Culture.
In April 2019, Robert P. George and West participated in an "assembly series" discussion at Washington University in St. Louis entitled "Liberal Arts Education: What's The Point?"[76]
West is also the co-host, along with Tricia Rose, of the podcast The Tight Rope.[77]
Dispute with Lawrence Summers
In 2000, economist and former U.S. Treasury Secretary
Summers refused to comment on the details of his conversation with West, except to express hope that West would remain at Harvard. Soon after, West was hospitalized for
Activism
Views on race in the United States
West has called the U.S. a "racist patriarchal" nation where
In West's view, the September 11 attacks "gave white Americans a glimpse of what it means to be a black person in the United States", feeling "unsafe, unprotected, subject to random violence, and hatred for who they are".[85] "The ugly terrorist attacks on innocent civilians on 9/11", he said, "plunged the whole country into the blues."[85]
West was arrested on October 13, 2014, while protesting against the
Politics
West has described himself as a "non-
West believes that "the overthrow of
West has been involved with such projects as the Million Man March and Russell Simmons's Hip-Hop Summit, and he has worked with such public figures as Al Sharpton, whose 2004 presidential campaign West advised.[95]
In 2000, West worked as a senior advisor to
In April 2002, West and Rabbi
West also serves as co-chair of the Network of Spiritual Progressives (formerly the
West supports People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in its Kentucky Fried Cruelty campaign, aimed at eliminating what PETA describes as the inhumane treatment of chickens by KFC. West is quoted on PETA flyers: "Although most people don't know chickens as well as they know cats and dogs, chickens are interesting individuals with personalities and interests every bit as developed as the dogs and cats with whom many of us share our lives."
In 2008, West contributed his insights on the global issue of modernized slavery and human trafficking in the documentary Call+Response.[100] West is a member of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy.
In 2011, West expressed his frustration with some critics of Occupy Wall Street, who said the movement lacked a clear and unified message. West replied by saying:
It's impossible to translate the issue of the greed of Wall Street into one demand, or two demands. We're talking about a democratic awakening...you're talking about raising political consciousness so it spills over all parts of the country, so people can begin to see what's going on through a set of different lens, and then you begin to highlight what the more detailed demands would be. Because in the end we're really talking about what Martin King would call a revolution: A transfer of power from oligarchs to everyday people of all colors. And that is a step by step process.[101]
On October 16, 2011, West was in
In 2014, West co-initiated the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, a project of the
In August 2017, West was one of a group of interfaith, multiracial clergy who took part in a counter-protest at the
West is an outspoken supporter of Julian Assange, on one occasion saying: "[Assange] has been simply laying bare some of the crimes and lies of the American empire".[106]
West stated that he believed the
West condemned Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip and called for a ceasefire in the Israel–Hamas war, saying that the US veto at the UN Security Council "to block a vote to end Israel’s barbaric genocidal campaign in Gaza is an act of spiritual obscenity and moral bankruptcy."[109] He called President Joe Biden a war criminal and said Israel and the US are complicit in the genocide of the Palestinians.[110][111]
Views on Barack Obama
West has often spoken about the lack of adequate black leadership and how it results in doubt within black communities as to their political potential to ensure change.
West criticized Obama when he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, saying that it would be difficult for Obama to be "a war president with a peace prize". West further retracted his support for Obama in an April 2011 interview, stating that Obama is "a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black muppet of corporate plutocrats. And now he has become head of the American killing machine and is proud of it".[114][115][116] In November 2012, West said in an interview that he considered Obama a "Rockefeller Republican in blackface".[117]
In 2011, West participated in a "Poverty Tour" with
In 2014, West gave an interview criticizing Obama, calling him a "counterfeit" who posed as a progressive. West defined Obama's presidency as "a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency, a national security presidency".[119]
Support for Bernie Sanders
In 2015, West expressed his support for Democratic contender Bernie Sanders during an interview on CNN Tonight. West argued that the Sanders plans to redistribute wealth from Wall Street elites to the poorest members of society would be beneficial for the African-American community.[120] On August 24, 2015, West tweeted, "I endorse Brother @BernieSanders because he is a long-distance runner with integrity in the struggle for justice for over 50 years."[121]
In July 2016, after Sanders exited the presidential race, West endorsed
Following the victory of Donald Trump, West contended in an op-ed for The Guardian that white working- and middle-class voters "rejected the economic neglect of neoliberal policies and the self-righteous arrogance of elites", yet "supported a candidate who appeared to blame their social misery on minorities, and who alienated Mexican immigrants, Muslims, black people, Jews, gay people, women, and China in the process."[125]
In 2020, West once again put his support behind Bernie Sanders, who mounted a second presidential bid in that election cycle.[126]
2024 presidential campaign
On June 5, 2023, West announced he would run in the
On October 5, 2023, West announced that he was abandoning his candidacy for the Green nomination, and would instead continue his presidential bid as an
Published works
- "Black Theology and Marxist Thought" (1979) – essay
- Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (1982)
- Post-Analytic Philosophy, edited with John Rajchman (1985)
- Prophetic Fragments (1988)
- The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (1989)
- Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (with bell hooks, 1991)
- The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought (1991)
- Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times: Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism (1993)
- Race Matters (1993)
- Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America (1994)
- Jews and Blacks: A Dialogue on Race, Religion, and Culture in America (with rabbi Michael Lerner, 1995)
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1996)
- Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America (1997)
- The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America's Beleaguered Moms and Dads (with Sylvia Ann Hewlett, 1998)
- The Future of American Progressivism (with Roberto Unger, 1998)
- The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2000)
- Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (2004)
- Commentary on The Ultimate Matrix Collection (with Ken Wilber, 2004)
- Hope on a Tightrope: Words & Wisdom (2008)
- Brother West: Living & Loving Out Loud (2009)
- The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto (with Tavis Smiley, 2012)
- Pro+Agonist: The Art of Opposition (2012)
- Black Prophetic Fire (2014)
Filmography
- Film
- Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal as himself
- The Matrix Reloaded (2003) as Councilor West
- The Matrix Revolutions (2003) as Councilor West
- Street Fight (2005)
- Examined Life (2008)
- The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) as Don Sexton
- #Bars4Justice(2015) as himself
- Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary (2016) as himself
- No Safe Spaces (2019) as himself.[133]
- Television
- "What Will Happen to the Gang Next Year?" (2012) as himself
Discography
- Albums
- Sketches of My Culture (2001)
- Street Knowledge (2004)
- Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations (2007) (with BMWMB)
- Guest appearances
- E-40 – "Born in the Struggle" from Revenue Retrievin': Overtime Shift (2011)
- Bootsy Collins – "Freedumb" from Tha Funk Capital of the World (2011)
- Immortal Technique – "Sign of the Times" from The Martyr (2011)
- Brother Ali – "Letter to My Countrymen" from Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color (2012)
- Terence Blanchard – Choices (2009)
- Terence Blanchard – Breathless (2015)
- Terence Blanchard – Live (2018)
See also
Notes
- ^ https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/1752749471622979858 West announced the formation of this party in 2024
- ^ Democratic Socialists of America is not a registered political party, instead, it is a political organization for those with democratic socialist ideologies.[10]
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Sources
- Morrison, John (2004). Cornel West. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4381-0003-6.
- Naden, Corinne J.; Blue, Rose (2005). Cornel West. Chicago, IL: Heinemann-Raintree Library (division of Reed Elsevier). ISBN 978-1-4109-1040-0. (juvenile nonfiction)
Further reading
- Dyson, Michael Eric (April 19, 2015). "The Ghost of Cornel West". The New Republic.
External links
- Official website
- Cornel West at IMDb
- Cornel West discography at Discogs
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Column archive at The Huffington Post