Book
Debating race with Michael Eric Dyson
Publication Information
New York : Basic Civitas Books, 2007.
Physical Description
xvii, 412 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
- Introduction / Movin' on up? Segregation, integration, and assimilation / Greatest American ever: the radical, and human, Martin Luther King, Jr. / Too little thought, too little action? Black leaders and intellectuals / Myths, distortion, and history: affirmative action / Rainbow collision? Black, white, and brown / Membership has its privileges: coloring white identities / Mexicans are coming: immigration and the borders of fear / I say yo, you say Oy: blacks, Jews, and love / Can we all get along? Racial friction and the beloved community / Homelands, homegirls, and homefronts: the politics of black love / Where is the love? Condoleezza Rice and black folk / General principles: Colin Powell's compassionate conservatism / Dying for attention: gun obsession and American violence
- Million heirs: marching toward manhood / In his own hands: black male intensity and Latrell Sprewell's American dream / Is Dave Chappelle crazy? The price of fame and the paranoid style / Empire keeps track: 9/11, race, and religion / Who's to blame? Victims, survivors, and agents in Hurrican Katrina / Humor in the hurt: politically incorrect reflections on Hurricane Katrina / Sorry seems to be the hardest word: apologies and reparations for slavery / Still some juice left: O.J. ten years later / Weapons of mass seduction: the War in Iraq and inside US / Bill Paid: philanthropy or social justice? / ResponsiBillity: Cosby's conservative turn / Shock (jock) therapy? Bills of right / Poor excuse: Cosby and the politics of disgust
Subjects
- African Americans > Social conditions.
- African Americans > Race identity.
- Minorities > United States.
- Equality > United States
- Group identity > United States.
- Multiculturalism > United States.
- Cultural pluralism > United States
- Social justice > United States.
- Race awareness > United States.
- United States > Race relations.
- United States > Social conditions > 21st century.