The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America - Brossura

Dyson, Michael Eric

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ISBN 10: 0544811801 ISBN 13: 9780544811805

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2017

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“Michael Eric Dyson combines cutting-edge theoretical acuity with the passionate, engaged, and accessible stance of a public intellectual” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Michael Eric Dyson dives deep into the true meaning of Barack Obama’s historic presidency, and its effects on the changing landscape of race and blackness in America. How has race shaped Obama’s identity, career, and presidency? What can we learn from his major race speeches about his approach to racial conflict and the black criticism it provokes?   Dyson was granted an exclusive interview with the president for this book, and Obama’s own voice shines through. Along with interviews with Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, and others, this intimate access provides a unique depth to this engrossing analysis of the nation’s first black president, and how race shapes and will shape our understanding of his achievements and failures alike.

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Praise for Michael Eric Dyson: American Book Award, 2007 (Come Hell or High Water)   NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction, 2006 (Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?)   Notable Books of 1994, NewYorkTimesBookReview   50 Most Inspiring African Americans (Essence magazine)   “Michael Eric Dyson...[is] a world-class scholar, and the most brilliant interpreter of hip hop culture we have...How many folk out there can talk about pimping in terms laid out by Hegel? Or use Kant to explain the way that prison fashion moved from the cellblock to the city block? Dyson drops the names of philosophers and scholar as easily as he does the names of artists on the latest mixtape moving dance floors in the clubs.”—Jay Z   “It’s very hard to both tell the truth and do it with care, but Dyson has proved himself master of this high-wire act. He’s an electrifying man of words – this is clear to anyone who has read him or heard him or seen him speak. Although he is entirely unafraid to walk into a rhetorical firefight, he is careful, he is considered, and he always seeks peaceful resolution to any debate, no matter how fraught.”—Dave Eggers   “Dyson is not only the most talented rhetorical acrobat in the academy—he is also one of the most courageous and engaged intellectuals in America.”—Cornel West   “Michael Eric Dyson embodies the ideal public intellectual for our time: translator, boundary-breaker, and healer of a war torn culture.”—Naomi Wolf   “Michael Eric Dyson combines cutting-edge theoretical acuity with the passionate, engaged, and accessible stance of a public intellectual”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.    

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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice

"Rich and nuanced. . . Dyson succeeds admirably in creating a base line for future interpretations of this historic presidency."—Kirkus
 
“A brilliant and complicated portrait of a brilliant and complicated president.”—Salon
 
Michael Eric Dyson dives deep into the true meaning of Barack Obama’s historic presidency and its effects on the changing landscape of race and blackness in America. How has race shaped Obama’s identity, career, and presidency? What can we learn from his major race speeches about his approach to racial conflict and the black criticism it provokes?

Dyson was granted an exclusive interview with the president for this book, and Obama’s own voice shines through. Along with interviews with Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, and others, this intimate access provides a unique depth to this engrossing analysis of the nation’s first black president, and how race shapes and will shape our understanding of his achievements and failures alike.
 
“Readers will recognize Dyson's practiced flair for language and metaphor as he makes an important and layered argument about American political culture and the narrowness of presidential speech. . . [The Black Presidency] might well be considered an interpretive miracle.”—New York Times Book Review
 
“Immensely engaging, unflinchingly honest, and appropriately provocative, Michael Eric Dyson proves, once again, that he is without peer when it comes to contextualizing race in twenty-first-century America. . . a must-read for anyone who wants to better understand America’s racial past, present, and future.”—Gilbert King, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Devil in the Grove
 
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON is a New York Times op-ed contributor, a Georgetown University professor, an MSNBC political analyst, and best-selling author of seventeen books, including the American Book Award–winning Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster.

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0544811801
• ISBN 13: 9780544811805
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 358