The Michael Eric Dyson Reader

By: Michael Dyson

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Paperback | 1 December 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Over the past ten years, the work of Michael Eric Dyson has become the first stop for readers, writers, and thinkers eager for uncommon wisdom on the racial and political dynamics of contemporary America. Whether writing on religion or sexuality or notions of whiteness, on Martin Luther King, Jr. or Tupac Shakur, Dyson's keen insight and rhetorical flair continue to surprise and challenge. This collection gathers the best of Dyson's growing body of work: his most incisive commentary, his most stirring passages, and his sharpest, most probing and broadminded critical analyses. From Michael Jordan to Derrida, Ralph Ellison to the diplomacy of Colin Powell, the mastery and ease with which Dyson tackles just about any subject is without parallel.

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"Michael Eric Dyson is the most talented and articulate intellectual of his generation." Cornel West"

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Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Why I Am an Intellectual
Dysonography
Not from Some Zeus's Head: My Intellectual Development	p. 3
Letter to My Brother, Everett, in Prison	p. 19
This I Believe	p. 32
Theories of Race
The Liberal Theory of Race	p. 37
When You're a Credit to Your Race, the Bill Will Come Due: O. J. Simpson and Our Trial by Fire	p. 46
Affirmative Action
Debating Affirmative Action	p. 69
A Reprieve for Affirmative Action	p. 86
Multiculturalism
Leonard Jeffries and the Struggle for the Black Mind	p. 91
Shakespeare and Smokey Robinson: Revisiting the Culture Wars	p. 96
Whiteness Studies
The Labor of Whiteness, the Whiteness of Labor, and the Perils of Whitewishing	p. 107
Giving Whiteness a Black Eye	p. 113
Gender Views
The Plight of Black Men	p. 137
Another Saturday Night, or Have All the Brothers Gone to White Women?	p. 147
In O. J.'s Shadow: Kobe Bryant's Predicament	p. 167
Afro-Baptist Radicalism and Rhetoric
"God Almighty Has Spoken from Washington D.C.": American Society and Christian Faith	p. 173
Gardner Taylor: The Poet Laureate of the American Pulpit	p. 192
"Somewhere I Read of the Freedom of Speech": Constructing a Unique Voice	p. 202
Religion and Sexuality
When You Divide Body and Soul, Problems Multiply: The Black Church and Sexuality	p. 219
Homotextualities: The Bible, Sexual Ethics, and the Theology of Homoeroticism	p. 238
Biocriticism and Black Icons
X Marks the Plots: A Critical Reading of Malcolm's Readers	p. 261
Mixed Blessings: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Lessons of an Ambiguous Heroism	p. 287
"Give Me a Paper and Pen": Tupac's Place in Hip-Hop	p. 306
Cinema Noir
Spike Lee's Neonationalist Vision	p. 327
Between Apocalypse and Redemption: John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood	p. 334
Ghettocentricity and the New Black Cinema	p. 349
The Soul Musics of Black Folk
The Promise and Perils of Contemporary Gospel Music	p. 363
Mariah Carey and "Authentic" Black Music	p. 367
Aretha Franklin, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, and Me	p. 370
The Great Next: Jazz Origins and the Anatomy of Improvisation	p. 376
Hip-Hop Culture
The Culture of Hip-Hop	p. 401
Gangsta Rap and American Culture	p. 411
We Never Were What We Used to Be: Black Youth, Pop Culture, and the Politics of Nostalgia	p. 418
The Predicament of Postmodernity
Michael Jackson's Postmodern Spirituality	p. 443
Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire	p. 461
Is Postmodernism Just Modernism in Drag?	p. 469
Coda: The Life of the Mind
It's Not What You Know, It's How You Show It: Black Public Intellectuals	p. 493
Notes	p. 511
Credits	p. 533
Index	p. 535
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