Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction. Cruciform (Almost) All the Way Down 1
4. PART I. CORNEL WEST AND HIS INTELLECTUAL GENEALOGY
5. CHAPTER 1 Reading Race Matters Again for the First Time 13
6. CHAPTER 2 Race Matters and US American Democracy: Cornel West and W. E. B. Du Bois 35
7. PART II Black Nihilism, Afropessimism, and Prophetic Faith
8. CHAPTER 3 Nihilism, Pessimism, and Tragic Hope: Black Nihilism Reconsidered 61
9. CHAPTER 4 Not Nothing: A Mystical Theological Reading of “Nihilism in Black America” 94
10. CHAPTER 5 What Manner of Man Is the Prophet? Cornel West, Abraham Heschel, and the Hebrew Prophets 107
11. CHAPTER 6 Prophetic Fightback: Cornel West, Race Matters, and the Black Church 135
12. PART III Social Justice and Historical Witnessing
13. CHAPTER 7 Race (and Love) Matter More Than Ever Now: Affirmative Action, Alliances, and Anti- Asian Hate 159
14. CHAPTER 8 Soulful Kenosis in Narcissistic Times 178
15. AFTERWORD Race Matters: Philosophy in the Funk 193
16. CONTRIBUTORS 201
17. INDEX 203