This file contains Tidwell's research materials relating to the perception of African American public intellectuals and in particular Cornel West. It includes photocopies of the following materials: The Village Voice articles about the treatment of African American intellectuals; "After O.J. and the Farrakhan-led Million Man March" by Michael Lerner and Cornel West; "The New Black Intellectuals" by Michael Bérubé from the New Yorker; "The New Intellectuals" by Robert S. Boynton from Atlantic Monthly; "All and Nothing At All" by Leon Wieseltier from The New Republic; "West of Righteous" by Anders Stephanson; "Race, Celebrity, and the Intellectuals" by Sean Wilentz; "Black politics, black leadership: An interview with Cornel West"; "Black & White and Read All Over"; and "The Talented Tenth" by W. E. Burghardt DuBois.