April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King -- the prophet for racial and economic justice in...
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Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture
A former welfare father from the ghetto of Detroit, Michael Eric Dyson is today a critic, scholar, and ordained Baptist minister who has forged a unique role: he is a compelling spokesman for the concerns of the black community, and...
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Can You Hear Me Now?: 04
"Before I wanted to write the world, I sought to right it," declares Michael Eric Dyson. As one of America's most visible, inspirational, and quotable public intellectuals, Dyson has weighed in on a vast array of issues. In his books...
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Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
This work examines what Hurricane Katrina reveals about the fault lines of race and poverty in America - and what lessons we must take from the flood. When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans, hundreds of thousands were left behind...
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Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur
Acclaimed for his writings on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as his passionate defense of black youth culture, Michael Eric Dyson has emerged as the leading African American intellectual of his generation. Now Dyson turns his...
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I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr
A private citizen who transformed the world around him, Martin Luther King, Jr., was arguably the greatest American who ever lived. Now, after more than thirty years, few people understand how truly radical he was. In this groundbreaking examination of...
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Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault on the black poor when he received an NAACP award in the spring of 2004. The comedian-cum-social critic lamented the lack of parenting,...
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JAY-Z: MADE IN AMERICA
The author wrestles with the biggest themes of Jay-Z's career, including hustling, and recognizes the way that he's always woven politics into his music, making important statements about race, criminal justice, black wealth, and social injustice.
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LONG TIME COMING: RECKONING WITH RACE IN AMERICA
  The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 43-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night’s events went viral, sparking the largest protests...
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Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X
Malcolm X's cultural rebirth--his improbable second coming--brims with irony. The nineties are marked by intense and often angry debates about racial authenticity and "selling out," and the participants in these debates--from politicians to filmmakers to rap artists--often draw on Malcolm'sscorching...
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Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye
Twenty years after his murder at the hands of his own father, Marvin Gaye continues to define the hopes and shattered dreams of the Motown generation. A performer whose career spanned the history of rhythm and blues, from doo-wop to...
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Open Mike
Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Exploring such topics as "whiteness" as seen through a black man's eye, modernism and postmodernism in black culture, and...
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Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)
Of the seven deadly sins, pride is the only one with a virtuous side. It is certainly a good thing to have pride in one's country, in one's community, in oneself. But when taken too far, as Michael Eric Dyson...
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Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (Volume 9) (American Culture)
Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (Volume 9) (American Culture) Product details Publisher : Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1st edition (June 2, 1993) Paperback : 346 pages ISBN-10 : 0816621438
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (Available May 4, 2021)
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, INDIEBOUND, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CHRONICLE HERALD, SALISBURY POST AND BOSTON GLOBEBESTSELLER - NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post - Bustle - Men's Journal - The Chicago Reader - StarTribune - Blavity - The Guardian - NBC New York's Bill's Books "One of the most...
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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first black presidency, from one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today ("Vanity Fair").  Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the...
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The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
Over the past ten years, the work of Michael Eric Dyson has become the first stop for readers, writers, and thinkers eager for uncommon wisdom on the racial and political dynamics of contemporary America. Whether writing on religion or sexuality...
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Why I Love Black Women
Son and husband, soulmate and teacher, Michael Eric Dyson owes his success to the love and support of the black women in his life. Yet too often, he warns, African American women are the victims of negative stereotypes that dominate...
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