How long does it take to read Race Matters?
Race Matters by Cornel West takes about 2 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 55 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1993. 159 pages, about 43,725 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
First published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters was a national best-seller, and it has since become a groundbreaking classic on race in America. Race Matters contains West’s most powerful essays on the issues relevant to black Americans today: despair, black conservatism, black-Jewish relations, myths about black sexuality, the crisis in leadership in the black community, and the legacy of Malcolm X. And the insights that he brings to these complicated problems remain fresh, exciting, creative, and compassionate. Now more than ever, Race Matters is a book for all Americans, as it helps us to build a genuine multiracial democracy in the new millennium.
Subjects: Race relations, Social conditions, African Americans, United States -- Race relations, Relaciones raciales, Relations interethniques
