Race Matters

The original edition of Race Matters, published in 1993 on the anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, has sold more than half a million copies—making it a bestseller. The book's relevance was proven again after police shootings of unarmed black Americans in Ferguson, Baltimore and Charlottesville. In this compelling new introduction to the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Race Matters, Dr. West argues that we are in the midst of a spiritual blackout characterized by imperial decline, racial animosity and unchecked brutality.