[PW] ?Quote by Cornel West

[Alice Falk]

bell hook, in her essay "Postmodern Blackness," has a lengthy quote from 
Cornel West; if this looks familiar to anyone, I would be very grateful for 
leads to identifying the source. All my online searches seem to lead either 
back to hooks's essay or to essays I must pay to access.

"There is increasing class division and differentiation, creating on the 
one hand a significant black middle-class, highly anxiety-ridden, insecure, 
willing to be co-opted and incorporated into the powers that be, concerned 
with racism to the degree that it poses contraints on upward social 
mobility; and, on the other, a vast and growing black underclass, an 
underclass that embodies a kind of walking nihilism of pervasive drug 
addiction, pervasive alcoholism, pervasive homicide, and an exponential 
rise in suicide. Now because of the deindustrialization, we also have a 
devastated black industrial working class. We are talking here about 
tremendous hopelessness."

Many thanks,
Alice

Alice Falk
(703) 836-3295 / afalk at his.com
Alexandria, VA