Analyzing Cornel West’s Race Matters

Analyzing Cornel West’s Race Matters

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In his work, Dr. West addresses major issues of the 1990s, concentrating on the race. He published “Race Matters” after the acquittal of white police officers accused of the brutal beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1992 (West, 2005). This colossal upheaval, he believes, was a multicultural, trans-class, and primarily masculine expression of righteous social wrath that symbolized American society’s sense of impotence. This was due to the economic depression ravaging the country, unemployment, spiritual impoverishment, collapse in cultural…