The Michael Eric Dyson Reader

by Michael Eric Dyson

Overview

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 or notions of whiteness, on Martin Luther King, Jr. or Tupac Shakur, Dyson's keen insight and rhetorical flair continue to surprise and challenge. This collection gathers the best of Dyson's growing body of work: his most incisive commentary, his most stirring passages, and his sharpest, most probing and broadminded critical analyses. From Michael Jordan to Derrida, Ralph Ellison to the diplomacy of Colin Powell, the mastery and ease with which Dyson tackles just about any subject is without parallel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780465017713
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	12/01/2004
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	576
Sales rank:	669,799
Product dimensions:	9.25(w) x 6.12(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Michael Eric Dyson has been named by Ebony as one of the one hundred most influential black Americans and is the author of fourteen other books. He is University Professor at Georgetown University and lives in Washington, D.C.

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Effortlessly and with conviction, he weaves together a range of themes from gangsta rap to graduate seminars, deepening them with highly varied and vividly portrayed personal experience.

Editorial Reviews

"Meteoric" describes perfectly the career of this Baptist minister and University of Pennsylvania Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities. In the last decade, Dyson has published eight books (e.g., Holler If You Hear Me) and numerous articles to become a major force among the black intelligentsia. This best-of selection of 36 essays and interviews ranges widely, moving from the predicament of postmodernity through whiteness studies and hip-hop culture, with an essay on Kobe Bryant's "predicament" attesting to the timeliness of the author's concerns. Dyson takes his own stand on the issues directly affecting African Americans and is neither completely liberal nor conservative. His witty writing style and well-documented approach to the topics will engage most readers. An excellent complement to Dyson's other works, notably Race Rules, and to Cornel West's Race Matters and Ishmael Reed's Another Day at the Front, this collection is recommended for all general public and academic library collections.-Anthony J. Adam, Prairie View A&M Univ. Lib., TX Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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