Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America

Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America by West, Cornel. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780415904865.

In this powerful collection by one of todays leading African American intellectuals, Keeping Faith situates the current position of African Americans, tracing the geneology of the "Afro-American Rebellion" from Martin Luther King to the rise of black revolutionary leftists. In Cornel Wests hands issues of race and freedom are inextricably tied to questions of philosophy and, above all, to a belief in the power of the human spirit.