ABSTRACT
Just about a decade after you were born, Richard Hofstadter published the 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. About 30 years later as Robin Kelly puts it, “1993 was a period when the so-called black public intellectual came into being prompted largely by the publication of Cornel West's Race Matters.” So what happened in those three decades that laid the groundwork for black intellectuals emerging as perhaps the most important cadre of intellectuals in the national landscape today and how do you see your role in that?
