Open mike : reflections on philosophy, race, sex, culture and religion / Michael Eric Dyson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyson, Michael Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dyson, Michael Eric.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

African American intellectuals.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African American philosophy.

African Americans--Social conditions--1975-.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans in popular culture.

Dyson, Michael Eric--Interviews.

African American intellectuals--Interviews.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxi, 426 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Reflections on philosophy, race, sex, culture and religion

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Civitas Books, [2003]

Summary:

Focusing on racial identity, popular cultures, and freedom struggles, these essays and interviews are collected from one of the most insightful and thought-provoking black intellectuals to emerge since the heyday of the Civil Rights Movement.

Contents:

Philosophy, theory and race. Not from some racial Zeus's head : my intellectual development ; Textual acts and semiotic gestures : race, writing and technotopia ; Baptizing theory, representing truth : religious discourse, poststructuralist theory and multiculturalism ; More than academic : seamless theory, racial disruptions and public intellectuals in the ebony tower ; Trump cards : racial paradigms, postcolonial theory and feminist thought ; Giving whiteness a black eye : excavating white identities, ideologies and institutions ; "Is it something I said?" : dissident speech, plantation Negro syndrome, and the politics of self-respect

Cultural studies. Is postmodernism just modernism in drag? : Black identities in flux ; The great next : jazz origins and the anatomy of improvisation ; Black fists and sole brothers : the 1968 Olympics ; Adjusting the color : television, race and culture. "I love Black people, but I hate niggas" : intellectuals, Black comedy and the politics of self-criticism

Religious beliefs, theological arguments. "Searching for Black Jesus" : the Nietzschean quest of a metaphysical thug ; "Speech is my hammer" : Black preaching, social justice and rap rhetoric ; Ecstasy, excess and eschatology : Black religion in crisis ; The anatomy of radical Christianity : tracing Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dangerous legacy ; Prophetic Black Islamic ethics : Malcolm X, spiritual warfare and angry Black love ; Homotextualities : the Bible, sexual ethics and the theology of homoeroticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-415) and index.

ISBN:

0465017657

OCLC:

50560445