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25 produkter
Pride
The Seven Deadly Sins
E-bok, 2006
228 kr
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Of the seven deadly sins, pride is the only one with a virtuous side. It is certainly a good thing to have pride in one''s country, in one''s community, in oneself. But when taken too far, as Michael Eric Dyson shows in Pride , these virtues become deadly sins. Dyson, named by Ebony magazine as one …
Between God and Gangsta' Rap
Bearing Witness to Black Culture
Häftad, 1997
258 kr
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A former welfare father from the ghetto of Detroit, Michael Eric Dyson is today a critic, scholar, and ordained Baptist minister who has forged a unique role: he is a compelling spokesman for the concerns of the black community, and also a leader who has a genuine rapport with that community, …
Pride
The Seven Deadly Sins
Inbunden, 2006
341 kr
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"Pride goeth before destruction, a hoaughty spirit before a mighty fall." As the biblical fall of Satan suggests, pride as a defining symptom of self-preoccupation follows a paradoxical route at which end lies self-destruction. Dyson explores the fate of pride from Christian theology to the social …
Pride
The Seven Deadly Sins
E-bok, 2006
171 kr
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Of the seven deadly sins, pride is the only one with a virtuous side. It is certainly a good thing to have pride in one''s country, in one''s community, in oneself. But when taken too far, as Michael Eric Dyson shows in Pride , these virtues become deadly sins. Dyson, named by Ebony magazine as one …
Making Malcolm
The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X
E-bok, 2010
208 kr
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Malcolm X''s cultural rebirth--his improbable second coming--brims with irony. The nineties are marked by intense and often angry debates about racial authenticity and "selling out," and the participants in these debates--from politicians to filmmakers to rap artists--often draw on Malcolm''s …
Reflecting Black
African-American Cultural Criticism
Häftad, 1993
303 kr
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From rap music to preaching, from Toni Morrison to Leonard Jeffries, from Michael Jackson to Michael Jordan, Reflecting Black explores as never before the varied and complex dimensions of African-American culture through personal reflection, expository journalism, scholarly investigation and even …
What Truth Sounds Like
Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
E-bok, 2018
175 kr
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A Pivotal Encounter That Transformed Race Relations in America Named a 2018 Notable Work of Nonfiction by The Washington Post NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner, The 2018 Southern Book Prize In 1963, a meeting between Attorney General Robert Kennedy and black luminaries James Baldwin, …
Jay-Z
Made in America
Inbunden, 2019
330 kr
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"Dyson's incisive analysis of JAY-Z's brilliance not only offers a brief history of hip-hop's critical place in American culture, but also hints at how we can best move forward." --QuestloveJAY-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric Dyson's decade of teaching the work of one of the …
JAY-Z
Made in America
E-bok, 2019
258 kr
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NOW A NEW YORK TIMES , USA TODAY , AND PUBLISHER''S WEEKLY BESTSELLER "Dyson writes with the affection of a fan but the rigor of an academic. ... Using extensive passages from Jay-Z’s lyrics, ''Made in America'' examines the rapper’s role as a poet, an aesthete, an advocate for racial justice and a …
Long Time Coming
Reckoning with Race in America
Inbunden, 2020
219 kr
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AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER and NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop , a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. Powerfully illuminating, heart-wrenching, and enlightening. -Ibram X. …
Long Time Coming
Reckoning with Race in America
E-bok, 2020
166 kr
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AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER This edition includes illustrations by Everett Dyson From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop , a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. “Powerfully illuminating, heart-wrenching, and …
Dear Emmett Till
An Excerpt from Long Time Coming
E-bok, 2021
36 kr
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A letter to Emmett Till, an excerpt from Dyson''s longer work, Long Time Coming Here is a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. As Dyson notes: "Rarely has the tragic fact of Black death been as urgently in need of interpretation and engagement …
What Truth Sounds Like
Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
Häftad, 2025
255 kr
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An electrifying and traumatic encounter in the sixties crystallised the fraught conflict between conscience and politics – between morality and power – in addressing race. In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. …
Long Time Coming
Reckoning with Race in America
Ljudbok, 2020
298 kr
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"As a narrator, the reverence and tenderness Dyson communicates in his letters--addressed to victims of racist violence Elijah McClain, Emmett Till, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, Hadiya Pendleton, Sandra Bland, and the Rev. Clementa Pinckney--invoke the experience of listening in on a holy epistle. …
Tears We Cannot Stop
A Sermon to White America
Ljudbok, 2017
292 kr
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This program is read by the author "Elegantly written, Tears We Cannot Stop is powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish." —Toni Morrison "Here’s a sermon that’s as fierce as it is lucid. It shook me up, …
April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King Jr.''s Death and How It Changed America
Ljudbok, 2008
205 kr
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On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., the prophet for racial and economic justice in America, was fatally shot while standing on the balcony of a Memphis hotel. Only hours earlier, he had ended his final public speech with the words, "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know …
Political Correctness Gone Mad?
Av Jordan B. Peterson, Stephen Fry m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
108 kr
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Has political correctness gone too far?‘Without free speech there is no true thought.’ —Jordan Peterson‘If you’re white, this country is one giant safe space.’—Michael Eric DysonThe Munk debate on political correctnessIs political correctness an enemy of free speech, sparking needless conflict? Or …
Political Correctness Gone Mad?
Av Jordan B. Peterson, Stephen Fry m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
80 kr
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‘Without free speech there is no true thought.’ –Jordan Peterson ‘If you’re white, this country is one giant safe space.’ –Michael Eric Dyson The Munk debate on political correctness Is political correctness an enemy of free speech, sparking needless conflict? Or is it a weapon in the fight for …
