Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture and Religion - Brossura

Dyson, Michael Eric

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ISBN 10: 0465017657 ISBN 13: 9780465017652

Casa editrice: Civitas Books, 2002

Riassunto

Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Exploring such topics as "whiteness" as seen through a black man's eye, modernism and postmodernism in black culture, and the emancipating role of black music from the plantation to the ghetto, Open Mike is a perfect introduction to Dyson's work and a must-have for students and scholars in African American Studies and Cultural Studies.

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L'autore:

Michael Eric Dyson, named by Ebony as one of the hundred most influential black Americans, is the author of sixteen books, including Holler if You Hear Me, Is Bill Cosby Right? and I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. He is currently University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Product Description:

Essays and interviews from one of the most insightful and thought-provoking black intellectuals to emerge since the heyday of the civil rights movement.. Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Exploring such topics as "whiteness" as seen through a black man's eye, modernism and postmodernism in black culture, and the emancipating role of black music from the plantation to the ghetto, Open Mike is a perfect introduction to Dyson's work and a must-have for students and scholars in African American Studies and Cultural Studies.

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• Editore: Civitas Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0465017657
• ISBN 13: 9780465017652
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 450