Cornel West (African-American Biographies (Raintree Hardcover))

Cornel West is a professor at Princeton University who teaches and writes about race in the United States. He believes that "race matters," which is also the title of his best-known book. In it, he talks about how black and white Americans get along with each other. He puts a share of the blame for poor relations on everybody -blacks, whites, liberals, and conservatives.