Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Cornel West's 1994 classic Race Matters scrutinized America's deep inner uncertainty about race. In Democracy Matters, his first major book in ten years, West analyzes the arrested development of democracy both in America and in the crisis-ridden Middle East. He argues that if we are to become...
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Cornel West's 1994 classic Race Matters scrutinized America's deep inner uncertainty about race. In Democracy Matters, his first major book in ten years, West analyzes the arrested development of democracy both in America and in the crisis-ridden Middle East. He argues that if we are to become the steward of democratization around the world, we must first awaken to the long history of imperialist corruption that has plagued our own foreign relations. "The old American empire of Manifest Destiny and Cold War containment policies has given way," he writes, "to a new American empire of dreams of global domination."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143035831 (0143035835)
Publish date: August 30th 2005
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 218
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Cultural,
African American,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Society,
Social Movements,
Social Justice,
Race
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