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Debating race : with Michael Eric Dyson

Author: Michael Eric Dyson
Publisher: New York : Basic Civitas Books, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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A collection of the author's previously unpublished intellectual encounters on race with some of today's most influential thinkers and politicians, including Jesse Jackson, Stephen Colbert, Ann Coulter, and Ted Koppel.
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Named Person: Michael Eric Dyson
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Eric Dyson
ISBN: 9780465002061 0465002064
OCLC Number: 77795901
Description: xvii, 412 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Imani Perry --
Movin' on up? : Segregation, integration, and assimilation / Mara Tapp, Gary Orfield, Arturo Vargas --
The greatest American ever : the radical, and human, Martin Luther King, Jr. / Tavis Smiley, Taylor Branch --
Too little thought, too little action? : Black leaders and intellectuals / Jesse Jackson --
Myths, distortions, and history : affirmative action / Ward Connerly --
Rainbow collision? : Black, white, and brown / Mara Tapp, Angelo Falcon --
Membership has its privileges : coloring white identities / Ray Suarez, David Roediger, Peggy McIntosh, Anna Meigs --
The Mexicans are coming : immigration and the borders of fear / Maria Hinojosa [et al.} --
I say Yo, you say Oy : blacks, Jews, and love / Elliot A. Ratzman --
Can we all get along? : Racial friction and the beloved community / Marianne Williamson --
Homelands, homegirls, and homefronts : the politics of Black love / Cornel West --
Where is the love? : Condoleezza Rice and black folk / Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, Joy Behar, Kathy Lee Gifford --
General principles : Colin Powell's compassionate conservatism / Juan Williams --
Dying for attention : gun obsession and American violence / Bill Press, Mary Matalin, Michael Medved --
The stakes are high : violence, hip-hop, and the United States Senate / John McCain, John Kerry. Million heirs : marching toward manhood / Liane Hansen, Joe Klein --
In his own hands : black male intensity and Latrell Sprewell's American dream / Roy Suarez, Len Elmore --
Is Dave Chappelle crazy? : The price of fame and the paranoid style / Keith Murphy --
The Empire keeps track : 9/11, race, and religion / Jeremy Earp --
Who's to blame? : Victims, survivors, and agents in Hurricane Katrina / Lynn Neary, Juan Williams --
The humor in the hurt : politically incorrect reflections on Hurricane Katrina / Stephen Colbert --
Sorry seems to be the hardest word : apologies and reparations for slavery / Bobbie Battista, David Horowitz --
Still some juice left : O.J. ten years later / Ofra Bikel --
Weapons of mass seduction : the War in Iraq and inside US / Bill Maher, Ann Coulter, Dennis Miller --
Bill paid : philanthropy or social justice? / Debra Dickerson --
ResponsiBillity : Cosby's conservative turn / Ted Koppel, Shelby Steele --
Shock (jock) therapy? : Bills of right / Bill O'Reilly --
Poor excuse : Cosby and the politics of disgust / Damian Bruce.
Responsibility: Michael Eric Dyson.
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From John Kerry to John McCain to Ann Coulter and hosts of television's "The View" - this work shows the mental agility and rhetorical tenacity that have made the author one of America's most astute  Read more...

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