Michael Eric Dyson: 15 books
by Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Acclaimed for his writing on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Tupac Shakur, and many more, Michael Eric Dyson has emerged as the leading African-American intellectual of his generation. This collection gathers the best of Dyson's vast and growing body of work from the last several years: his most...
Can You Hear Me Now?
The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Over the last 20 years, Michael Eric Dyson has become one of America’s most visible—and quotable—public intellectuals. Whether in his sixteen books, or in countless newspapers, television and radio appearances, or on stages, podiums, and pulpits across the world, Dyson has spun an enchanting...
Pride
The Seven Deadly Sins
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
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 shows in Pride, these virtues become deadly sins. Dyson, named by Ebony magazine as one of...
Debating Race
with Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Whether chronicling the class conflict in the African-American community or exposing the failings of the government response in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Michael Eric Dyson has never shied away from controversy. No stranger to intellectual combat, Dyson has always been ready to engage friends...
Is Bill Cosby Right?
Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Michael Eric Dyson took America by storm with this provocative expose of the class and generational divide that is tearing black America apart. 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...
The Black Presidency
Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
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 politics of race have shaped Barack...
What Truth Sounds Like
Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Named a 2018 Notable Work of Nonfiction by The Washington Post
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner, The 2018 Southern Book Prize
NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Chicago Tribune • Time • Publisher's Weekly
A stunning follow up to New York Times bestseller...
Tears We Cannot Stop
A Sermon to White America
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, INDIEBOUND, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CHRONICLE HERALD, SALISBURY POST, GUELPH MERCURY TRIBUNE, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post • Bustle • Men's Journal • The Chicago Reader •...
Mercy, Mercy Me
The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
The best-selling Motown artist of all time, Marvin Gaye defined the hopes and shattered dreams of an entire generation. Twenty years after his tragic death-he was shot by his father-his relevance persists because of the indelible mark his outsized talent left on American culture. A transcendent performer...
by Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
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 the emancipating role of...
by Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
With a new preface by the author. Ten years after his murder, Tupac Shakur is even more loved, contested, and celebrated than he was in life. His posthumously released albums, poetry, and motion pictures have catapulted him into the upper echelon of American cultural icons. In Holler If You Hear Me,...
Know What I Mean?
Reflections on Hip-Hop
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Whether along race, class, or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has condemned and commended this music and the culture that inspires it. Dubbed the Hip-Hop Intellectual”...
April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How it Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m., while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King ended his final speech with the words, I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to...
La corrección política
¿Hay vida inteligente entre el insulto y la dictadura del buenismo?
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 28, 2019
¿La corrección política es enemiga de la libertad de expresión, el debate abierto y el intercambio de ideas? O, por el contrario, ¿reformulando el lenguaje para incluir en él a grupos minoritarios construimos una sociedad más justa e igualitaria?
Algunos opinan que la corrección política...
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