The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country - Henry Louis Gates

West, Cornel: - Cornel West is Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., University Professor of Harvard University. He is the author of many books including The American Evasion of Philosophy , The Future of Race (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) and the best-selling Race Matters . He won an American Book Award in 1993 for his multi-volume work Beyond Euro-centrism and Multiculturalism. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.