THE MIND OF “DR. CORNELL WEST

Westernity or Europeanism and The other Worlds

How Eurocentric Is Your Day?
by M. Shahid Alam / November 5th, 2009

At the outset of the classes I teach, I always address the question of bias in the social sciences. In one course – on the history of the global economy – this is the central theme. It critiques Eurocentric biases in several leading Western [...]

The First White Valedictorian at Historically Black Voorhees College

The First White Valedictorian at Historically Black Voorhees College
“In the spring of 2008 Joshua Packwood was the first white man to be valedictorian at Morehouse College in Atlanta. He was an economics major with a 4.0 grade point average. He landed a job on Wall Street.
This spring Victoria Paun is the first white valedictorian at [...]

Where English teachers have to look the part – Asian Americans can’t compete with white instructors in China.

Los Angeles Times Reports:

By Kevin Zhou
October 29, 2007  

When Douglas Lee started searching for a job as an English instructor in Chengdu, he seemed just like any other American to his potential employers. He was raised in Oklahoma, enjoyed listening to jazz and was a big fan of Woody Allen movies like “Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
But when [...]

Recent Purchases

I just realized that I might be a little addictive to books. I recently spent 400.00 bucks on books. I’ve got some in philosophy, literary theory, African American Literature, and Race relations.  Here are the noteworthy ones I recently acquired:
 

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful : Edmund E. Burke (Paperback, [...]

More Financial Trouble for US Seminaries

Christianity Today (CT), in an article entitled “Stocks Squeezes Seminaries,” Collin Hansen has reported the following observations:  
“About 20 percent of all seminaries unrelated to a college or university operated with deficit budgets three of the last five years, according to ATS spokeswoman Eliza Smith Brown. These schools had less than one year of operating expenses in [...]