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Debating race with Michael Eric Dyson

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  • 305.896 D998.2 (CEN)

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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

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