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In his major bestseller, Race Matters, philosopher Cornel West burst onto the national scene with his searing analysis of the scars of racism in American democracy. Race Matters has turned into a modern classic, still on the net after a decade, having sold more than four hundred thousand copies. A mesmerizing speaker with a host of fervidly devoted fans, West gives as much as one hundred public lectures yearly and appears regularly on radio and television. Praised by The New York Times for his "ferocious moral vision" and hailed by Newsweek as "an elegant prophet with attitude," he bridges the gap between black and white judgment about the country's problems. In Democracy Matters, West returns to the analysis of the arrested development of democracy-both in the us and in the crisis-ridden Middle East. In a strikingly original diagnosis, he argues that if America is to become an improved steward of democratization surrounding the world, we should first awaken to the long history of imperialist corruption that has plagued our very own democracy. Both our failure to foster peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the crisis of Islamist anti-Americanism stem largely from hypocrisies in our dealings with the world. Racism and imperial expansionism have gone hand in hand in our country's inexorable drive toward hegemony, and our current militarism is only the latest expression of that drive. Even as we are shocked by Islamic fundamentalism, our very own make of fundamentalism, which West dubs Constantinian Christianity, has joined forces with imperialist corporate and political elites in an unholy alliance, and four decades after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., insidious racism still inflicts debilitating psychic pain on so quite a few citizens. But there is a deep democratic tradition in the us of impassioned commitment to the fight imperialist corruptions-the last great expression which was the civil rights movement led by Dr. King-and West brings forth the powerful voices of that great democratizing tradition in a brilliant and deeply moving call for the revival of our own better democratic nature. His impassioned and provocative argument for the revitalization of America's democracy will reshape the conditions of the raging national debate about America's role in the current troubled world.
