Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America / Michael Eric Dyson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyson, Michael Eric, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race discrimination.

History.

Racism.

Race relations.

United States--Race relations--20th century.

United States.

United States--Race relations--21st century.

Racism--United States--History--20th century.

Racism--United States--History--21st century.

Race discrimination--United States--History--20th century.

Race discrimination--United States--History--21st century.

Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 228 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.

Contents:

Call to worship

Hymns of praise

Invocation

Scripture reading

Sermon. Repenting of whiteness; Inventing whiteness; The five stages of white grief; The plague of white innocence; Being Black in America. Nigger; Our own worst enemy?; Coptopia

Benediction

Offering plate

Prelude to service

Closing prayer.

Notes:

"First Edition: January 2017."

Printed on front pastedown and free lining paper "how we can make it through the long night of despair ...". Printed on back free lining paper and pastedown :to the bright day of hope. Michael Eric Dyson". The word "we" is highlighted on front pastedown and "hope" on back free lining paper.

"Jacket design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

9781250135995

1250135990

OCLC:

956745417