Prophesy Deliverance!
An Afro-american Revolutionary Christianity: 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition

It seems like it was his college dissertation written in 1980. Since I read it in 2012, it needed an update for the past thirty years. It is basically an explanation of his religious and political views. He thinks liberal Christianity and a certain type of communism combined is the best hope for the......more

Thisseminal work is a completely unique look at the history of modernity, racism, religion, & marxism through the Afro-American experience. While the book covers a lot of ground, a few of the ideas he develop really stand out. - West presents a unique genealogy of American racism tying it's develop d......more

I enjoyed reading the first few chapters which are West’s survey of Western cultural history, with the inclusion of African-American history. The inclusion is so well placed, that West achieves something remarkable, to break down the academic wall that arbitrarily segregates black studies into its o......more

Great argument for the Black Churches’ involvement and acceptance of a new all Neo marxists economical theory. This book helped me to rethink liberalism and its capitalistic connection. A new Marxism seems more attractive as a necessary component the Black Christian prophetic tradition.......more

The book is dense with knowledge. Cornel West summarizes and questions the major thinkers that contribute to the culture of African American revolutionary. He's open to many ideas and presents them to the reader as a new way of seeing the movement. Mainly he proposes how you can take the Marxism pol......more