Michael Eric Dyson, Author Free Press $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-684-86776-2
Reduced to sound bites and videoclips, Martin Luther King's image has become one of a starry-eyed dreamer and conformist, contends Dyson (Making Malcolm, etc.) in this attempt to reclaim the man he views as heroic and flawed from biographers,...
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Michael Eric Dyson. Macmillan, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-19941-6
Sociologist and political commentator Dyson (Tears We Cannot Stop) delivers a piercing and wide-ranging analysis of American race relations. The focal point of the book is a 1963 meeting between Sen. Robert Kennedy and a group of notable African-Amer
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Michael Eric Dyson. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-544-38766-9
In insightful fashion, Dyson (Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster) looks at how President Obama has dealt with, in James Baldwin's phrase, "the burden of representation" as an African-American. He begins with the...
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author Basic Civitas Books $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-465-01763-8
With his Open Mike: Reflections of Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture and Religion published by Basic just 60 days prior to this title, Dyson--University of Pennsylvania professor and the author of sensitive and determined polemics covering the legacy...
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author Basic Civitas Books $29.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-465-01768-3
In this probing collection of essays, speeches and interviews, Dyson (Reflecting Black; Race Rules; Open Mike, etc.), an ex-welfare dad and auto-worker, ordained Baptist minister and University of Pennsylvania professor, demonstrates a rare...
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author Oxford University Press, USA $27.5 (240p) ISBN 978-0-19-509898-3
``[P]reacher and public intellectual'' Dyson (Making Malcolm) offers a lucid, mostly stimulating roundup of op-eds, reviews and articles about books, music, people and politics. An ordained Baptist minister, at 35 he has his finger on the pulse of...
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author University of Minnesota Press $0 (346p) ISBN 978-0-8166-2141-5
Dyson, who teaches African American studies at Brown University, has collected here an often impressive group of essays and reviews. He argues forcefully for a black criticism that rejects racial essentialism while recognizing the interweaving of...
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author . Basic $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-465-01755-3
A poor, urban, high school dropout and book-devouring autodidact who'd quote Shakespeare in conversation, Shakur would also sing along to Sarah McLachlan. Dyson (I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.), a Baptist minister,
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author Oxford University Press $23.95 (142p) ISBN 978-0-19-516092-5
In the final book in a collaborative series between the New York Public Library and Oxford University Press on the seven deadly sins, Dyson examines pride in its many iterations, invoking pop culture icons and events to lend accessibility to a...
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author Vintage Books USA $13 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-78156-1
The author exposes the tacit understandings that undermine race relations. (Sept.)
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author , intro. by Dave Eggers. Basic/Civitas $19.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-465-01883-3
Having cemented himself as one of the foremost American thinkers on race, Dyson, the author of 16 books on a range of subjects from hip-hop to contemporary politics, compiles his most quotable aphorisms from speeches and articles of the last two...
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author . Basic/Civitas $26 (412p) ISBN 978-0465002061
Having already risen from poverty to become an ordained minister, a tenured professor at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of more than a dozen books (most recently Come Hell or High Water
and Is Bill Cosby Right?
),...
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author . Basic Civitas $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-465-01761-4
The first major book to be released about Hurricane Katrina, Dyson's volume not only chronicles what happened when, it also argues that the nation's failure to offer timely aid to Katrina's victims indicates deeper problems in race and...
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author . Basic $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-465-01719-5
Last May, iconic comedian Cosby raised a storm with a dyspeptic rant about the self-destructive failures of the black underclass: "knuckleheads" without parents who "put their clothes on backward," speak bad English and go to jail....
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author . Basic $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-465-01769-0
Dyson, a leading figure in black studies who is as comfortable discussing Tupac as Malcolm and Martin, offers a "biocriticism" that reflects on the themes of Marvin Gaye's music and personal life. Too much of the analysis, however,...
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author . Perseus $17 (448p) ISBN 978-0-465-01765-2
This is a collection of interviews with Dyson (Race Rules; Making Malcolm; etc.), the professor, public intellectual and Baptist minister, on topics ranging from homoeroticism and the Bible to jazz and hip-hop. The most prominent emphases are...
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author, Elizabeth Maguire, Editor Basic Books $20 (240p) ISBN 978-0-201-91186-2
In this somewhat disjointed essay collection, Dyson (Between God and Gangsta Rap) argues that ""we haven't learned our lessons"" about racial etiquette. This ordained minister writes with rhythm and power, even if he sometimes travels well-trod...
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Michael Eric Dyson, Author, Micheal Eric Dyson, Author Oxford University Press, USA $25 (248p) ISBN 978-0-19-509235-6
Dyson sees Malcolm X as a symbol of the self-discipline, self-esteem and moral leadership necessary to combat the spiritual and economic corruption of poor African American communities. This thoughtful, scholarly essay on the charismatic political...
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Leonard Freed. J. Paul Getty Trust, $29.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-60606-121-3
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the March for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, this handsome black-and-white collection...
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Edited by Rudyard Griffiths. House of Anansi, $14.95 trade paperback (152p) ISBN 978-1-4870-0525-2
Two pairs of notable public figures face off in the semiannual Munk Debate, a Canadian series addressing contentious issues in public policy, on the topic “what you call political correctness, I call progress,” transcribed here along with interviews
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Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin’s, $24.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-23096-6
In this astute cultural biography, Dyson (Tears We Cannot Stop) analyzes the impact of Jay-Z through his music—from his hard-knock life as a drug dealer from Brooklyn, to his becoming a billionaire rapper and husband of megastar Beyoncé. “The more I
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Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-27675-9
Georgetown University sociology professor Dyson (What Truth Sounds Like) offers heartfelt letters to victims of racial injustice in America. In a letter to Emmett Till, Dyson considers how the phenomenon of inherited racial trauma (“We feel the...
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Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin’s, $32.50 (656p) ISBN 978-1-250-13597-1
Cultural commentator Dyson (Long Time Coming) analyzes “the terms of Black performance” in this wide-ranging and artfully conceived collection of essays, speeches, and interviews. Eloquently illustrating how “Black folk didn’t just express the pain...
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Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau. Little, Brown, $18.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7595-5701-7
Dyson and Favreau examine significant moments of injustice and inequality throughout U.S. history in this crucial nonfiction volume, which posits that “the first step to changing the world... is to understand what has come before.” Blending stories...
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Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau. Little, Brown, $19.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7595-5706-2
Collaborators Dyson and Favreau (Unequal) present the ideologies that disparage women and Black Americans and become the framework for contemporary American society in this accessible accounting of voting rights. In a linear chronology, the authors...
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