Cornel West
Impact in
- Music top 2%
- Music History and Culture
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- Critical Race Theory in Education
- Race, History, and American Society
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
Papers in
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- Race, History, and American Society 16
- Political theory and Gramsci 4
- Religion and Society Interactions 3
- Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies 3
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- American Constitutional Law and Politics 6
- Co-authors
- bell hooks (2 shared papers)Robert Gooding‐Williams (1 shared paper)Sylvia Ann Hewlett (2 shared papers)Eddie S. Glaude (1 shared paper)William C. McIntosh (1 shared paper)R. B. Hargraves (1 shared paper)Angela Y. Davis (1 shared paper)Anders Stephanson (2 shared papers)
- Journals
- Social Text (7 papers)boundary 2 (4 papers)October (4 papers)Journal of American History (3 papers)Monthly Review (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesSouth Africa
In The Last Decade
Cornel West
81 papers receiving 1.0k citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 100
- Music 82
- Sociology and Political Science 881
- Philosophy 209
- Education 457
- Literature and Literary Theory 143
Countries citing papers authored by Cornel West
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Fields of papers citing papers by Cornel West
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Cornel West, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism | 2004 | 180 |
| 2 | Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life | 1991 | 170 |
| 3 | 1995 | 147 | |
| 4 | 1983 | 130 | |
| 5 | The Cornel West Reader | 1999 | 115 |
| 6 | 1989 | 89 | |
| 7 | 1990 | 85 | |
| 8 | Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times | 1993 | 52 |
| 9 | The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America's Beleaguered Moms and Dads | 1998 | 44 |
| 10 | 1985 | 37 | |
| 11 | The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today | 1997 | 31 |
| 12 | 1992 | 27 | |
| 13 | 1998 | 25 | |
| 14 | African American Religious Thought: An Anthology | 2003 | 24 |
| 15 | 1985 | 20 | |
| 16 | The Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia and Croatia | 1997 | 19 |
| 17 | Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America | 1997 | 18 |
| 18 | 1992 | 18 | |
| 19 | The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto | 2012 | 17 |
| 20 | Prophetic Reflections: Notes on Race and Power in America | 1993 | 17 |
About Cornel West
Cornel West is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Philosophy, Law and Economics and Econometrics, having authored 98 papers that have together received 1.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Race, History, and American Society (16 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (6 papers), Political theory and Gramsci (4 papers), Religion and Society Interactions (3 papers), Jewish Identity and Society (3 papers), Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (3 papers), Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 papers) and Legal Education and Practice Innovations (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Music (82 citations), Sociology and Political Science (881 citations), Philosophy (209 citations), Education (457 citations) and Literature and Literary Theory (143 citations). Cornel West has collaborated with scholars based in United States and South Africa. Frequent co-authors include bell hooks, Robert Gooding‐Williams, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Eddie S. Glaude, William C. McIntosh, R. B. Hargraves, Angela Y. Davis, Anders Stephanson, Henry Louis Gates and Toni Morrison. Their work appears in journals such as Social Text, boundary 2, October, Journal of American History and Monthly Review.
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