Debating race with Michael Eric Dyson / Michael Eric Dyson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyson, Michael Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

African Americans--Race identity.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xvii, 412 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Debating race

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Civitas Books, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction / Imani Perry

Movin' on up? Segregation, integration, and assimilation / Mara Tapp, Gary Orfield, Aruturo Vargas

Greatest American ever: the radical, and human, Martin Luther King, Jr. / Tavis Smiley, Taylor Branch

Too little thought, too little action? Black leaders and intellectuals / Jesse Jackson

Myths, distortion, and history: affirmative action / Ward Connerly

Rainbow collision? Black, white, and brown / Mara Tapp, Angelo Falcon

Membership has its privileges: coloring white identities / Ray Suarez, David Roediger, Peggy McIntosh, Anna Meigs

Mexicans are coming: immigration and the borders of fear / Maria Hinojosa, [et al.}

I say yo, you say Oy: blacks, Jews, and love / Elliot A. Ratzman

Can we all get along? Racial friction and the beloved community / Marianne Williamson

Homelands, homegirls, and homefronts: the politics of black love / Cornel West

Where is the love? Condoleezza Rice and black folk / Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, Joy Behar, Kathy Lee Gifford

General principles: Colin Powell's compassionate conservatism / Juan Williams

Dying for attention: gun obsession and American violence / Bill Press, Mary Matalin, Michael Medved

Stakes are high: violence, hip-hop, and the United States Senate / John McCain, John Kerry.

Million heirs: marching toward manhood / Liane Hansen, Joe Klein

In his own hands: black male intensity and Latrell Sprewell's American dream / Roy Suarez, Len Elmore

Is Dave Chappelle crazy? The price of fame and the paranoid style / Keith Murphy

Empire keeps track: 9/11, race, and religion / Jeremy Earp

Who's to blame? Victims, survivors, and agents in Hurrican Katrina / Lynn Neary, Juan Williams

Humor in the hurt: politically incorrect reflections on Hurricane Katrina / Stephen Colbert

Sorry seems to be the hardest word: apologies and reparations for slavery / Bobbie Battista, David Horowitz

Still some juice left: O.J. ten years later / Ofra Bikel

Weapons of mass seduction: the War in Iraq and inside US / Bill Maher, Ann Coulter, Dennis Miller

Bill Paid: philanthropy or social justice? / Debra Dickerson

ResponsiBillity: Cosby's conservative turn / Ted Koppel, Shelby Steele

Shock (jock) therapy? Bills of right / Bill O'Reilly

Poor excuse: Cosby and the politics of disgust / Damian Bruce.

ISBN:

0465002064

9780465002061

OCLC:

77795901