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Cornel Ronald West (born June 2 1953) is an American philosopher academic activist author public intellectual and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. The son of a Baptist minister West received his undergraduate education at Harvard University graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1973 and received a Ph.D at Princeton University in 1980 becoming the first African American to graduate from Princeton with a Ph.D in philosophy.

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birth date
1953-06-02
birth place
Tulsa Oklahoma
era
20th-century philosophy, Contemporary philosophy
influenced by
Karl Marx, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Friedrich Engels, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Rorty, James H. Cone
main interest
Democracy, Ethics, Philosophy of religion, Political philosophy, Race (human classification)
notableIdea
Race Matters
philosophicalSchool
Existentialism, Historicism, Neopragmatism, Africana philosophy
region
Western philosophy

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