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West, Cornel

LC control no.n 82065739
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Personal name headingWest, Cornel
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Variant(s)West, Cornel (Cornel Ronald), 1953-
Other standard no.0000000123215424
109231256
Q712469
Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeCambridge (Mass.)
Birth date1953-06-02
Place of birthTulsa (Okla.)
Field of activityCivil rights workers Political activists
AffiliationHarvard University Princeton University Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.) Yale University. Divinity School Democratic Socialists of America
Profession or occupationPhilosophers College teachers Critics Authors, Black
University and college faculty members
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Found inTheology in the Americas, c1982 (a.e.) t.p. (Cornel West)
His Prophesy deliverance, c1982: CIP t.p. (Cornel West) pub. info. sheet (full name, Cornel Ronald West, b. June 2, 1953)
The other Malcolm, "Shorty" Jarvis, 2001: CIP t.p. (edited by Cornel R. West)
African American religious thought, c2003: t.p. (Cornel West) p. 4 of cover (Class of 1943 Prof. of Religion and African Studies, Princeton U.)
African American National Biography, accessed September 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (West, Cornel; philosopher, educator, cultural critic; born 02 June 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States; BA in Near Eastern Languages and Literature (1973); MA (1975) and PhD (1980), Princeton University; taught philosophy of religion and ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York City (1977); taught at Yale University Divinity School (1984-1987), University of Paris (1987); director of Afro-American Studies and professor of Religious Studies at Princeton (1988); Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor at Harvard (1998); spokesperson and honorary chairperson for the Democratic Socialists of America; achieved national and international acclaim with the publication of Race Matters (1993); co-host of Smiley & West radio show (since 2010))
Associated languageeng
Invalid LCCNn 88035470