Marc Favreau is the director of editorial programs at the New Press and the author of several nonfiction titles for teens, including Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia and Crash: The Great Depression and the Fall and Rise of America. He is also an ordained minister and author of best-selling adult books about race, such as the forthcoming Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America. Michael Eric Dyson is a Vanderbilt University sociology professor, a New York Times contributing opinion writer, and a contributing editor to The New Republic. 'To read Entertaining Race is to encounter the life-long vocation of a teacher who preaches, a preacher who teaches and an activist who cannot rest until all are set free.Dr.

' Entertaining Race is a splendid way to spend quality time reading one of the most remarkable thinkers in America today.' ( Speaker Nancy Pelosi) Entertaining Race offers a compelling vision from the mind and heart of one of America’s most important and enduring voices.Ī Macmillan Audio production from St. Most of this work will be new to readers, a fresh light for many of his long-time fans and an inspiring introduction for newcomers. Kendi, Master P, MC Lyte, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alicia Garza, John McWhorter, and Jordan Peterson. Dyson’s career embodies these and other ways of performing Blackness, and in these chapters, ranging from 1991 to the present, he entertains race with his pen, voice and body, and occasionally, alongside luminaries like Cornel West, David Blight, Ibram X.

Black people were forced to entertain white people in slavery, have been forced to entertain the idea of race from the start, and must find entertaining ways to make race an object of national conversation. Now for the first time he brings together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits.Įntertaining Race is a testament to Dyson’s consistent celebration of the outsized impact of African American culture and politics on this country. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and culture. From the New York Times best-selling author of Tears We Cannot Stop comes Michael Eric Dyson's Entertaining Race.įor more than 30 years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister.

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