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Date of Birth
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02-June-1953
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Place of Birth
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Tulsa
(Oklahoma, Tulsa County, Wagoner County, Osage County, United States of America, Area codes 918 and 539, Area code 918, Area code 539)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Cornel Ronald West, Cornell West, Dr. Cornel West, Cornel West Ph.D, Prof. Cornel West
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Profession
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Philosopher, Writer, Critic, Author, Actor, Minister of religion, Teacher, Activist
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Cornel Ronald West 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. He was formerly The Class of 1943 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton before leaving the school in 2011 to become Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He previously taught at Harvard before leaving the school after a highly publicized dispute with then-president Lawrence Summers, and has also spent time teaching at the University of Paris.
The bulk of West's work focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their "radical conditionedness." West draws intellectual contributions from multiple traditions, including Christianity, the black church, Marxism, neopragmatism, and transcendentalism. Among his most influential books are Race Matters and Democracy Matters.
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