Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, a Memoir

Cornel West

ReadHowYouWant.com, Jan 19, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 396 pages

New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America's most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom, the streets, the prisons, or the church, Dr. West's penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon shining through the darkness for decades. Yet, as he points out in this new memoir, I've never taken ...

Contents

• ON THE MOVE: 3
• JANUARY 1 1961: 12
• MY CHANGE: 28
• THE BRIDGE: 36
• CURVE BALLS: 42
• NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: 53
• ALBERT EINSTEIN AND MALCOLM X: 77
• R E S P E C T: 91
• LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN ANDOR: 102
• DAVID HUME AND ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER IN: 109
• THE BIG BLOCK: 122
• BROTHER WASH: 133
• MOON LIGHT OVER MANHATTAN: 144
• THINK: 154
• TRANE: 161
• MAKE UP TO BREAK UP: 185
• ELLENI: 195
• THE WAY YOU DO THE THINGS YOU DO: 212
• AFRICAN DREAMS: 222
• RACE MATTERS: 231
• THE DREAM TEAM: 239
• WHAT MATTER OF MAN?: 247
• LOSS: 265
• THE MOST PASSIONATE LOVE: 283
• MESSIN WITH THE WRONG BROTHER: 291
• WOMB TO TOMB: 302
• DEATH TAXES AND LOVE: 314
• TEACHABLE MOMENTS: 320
• YOU ARE LOVED: 332
• GRATITUDE: 343
• OUR COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT: 355
• FRONT COVER FLAP: 363

About the author

Professor, writer, and civil rights activist Cornel West was born on June 2, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and raised in Sacramento. He graduated from Harvard University in 1973 with an M.A. and later taught African-American studies there. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Haverford College, and Princeton University, the latter as professor of religion and director of African-American studies. West earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1980. He has written more than twenty books, including Race Matters and Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, a Memoir
• Author: Cornel West
• Edition: large print
• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com, 2011
• ISBN: 1458730026, 9781458730022
• Length: 396 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / African American & Black; Biography & Autobiography / Cultural & Regional; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs; Education / Schools / Levels / Higher; Education / Teaching / General; Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies