Entertaining race : performing Blackness in America / Michael Eric Dyson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyson, Michael Eric, author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social life and customs.

African Americans in popular culture.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African American arts.

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

United States.

United States--Civilization--African American influences.

Civilization.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Civilization--African American influences.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

x, 530 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.

Summary:

"For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and culture. Now for the first time he brings together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits. Entertaining Race is a testament to Dyson's consistent celebration of the outsized impact of African American culture and politics on this country. Black people were forced to entertain white people in slavery, have been forced to entertain the idea of race from the start, and must find entertaining ways to make race an object of national conversation. Dyson's career embodies these and other ways of performing Blackness, and in these pages, ranging from 1991 to the present, he entertains race with his pen, voice and body, and occasionally, alongside luminaries like Cornel West, David Blight, Ibram X. Kendi, Master P, MC Lyte, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alicia Garza, John McWhorter, and Jordan Peterson. Most of this work will be new to readers, a fresh light for many of his long-time fans and an inspiring introduction for newcomers. Entertaining Race offers a compelling vision from the mind and heart of one of America's most important and enduring voices"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: THE ARTS

I Love Music On the Concert Stage

1. The King of Pop and the Queen of Everything

2. "One Love," Two Brothers, Three Verses

3. Mission Accomplished

4. Hello Like Before

5. The Church of Aretha Franklin

Do You See What I See? In the Photograph

6. August March

7. Photobombing Mandela

8. Of Mic and Lens

Act Like You Know In the Theater

9. King at Midnight

10. The Blues of August Wilson

Represent On the Silver Screen

11. Trump L'beil of Race

12. Bigelow's General Method

RELIGION

Holy Hallways In Divinity School

13. What's Derrida Got to Do with Jesus?

14. The Prophetic Passions of a Black Radical Evangelical

Do You Hear What I Hear? God in the Public Square

15. Abraham, Isaac, and Us (and Hagar and Ishmael and Trayvon and Michael Brown, Too)

16. George Floyd and the Politics of Black Automortology

17. Black Love in a Time of Coronavirus

I Love to Tell the Story In the Pulpit

18. What Have I Left?

19. Hard Out Here for a P.I.M.P.

Eulogizing Ancestors In the Grieving Sanctuary

20. A Key, a Song, a Bridge

21. Long Live the Queen

22. When She

BODIES IN MOTION

Balling Out In the Arena

23. Pound for Pound

24. He the Best

25. Currying Favor

To Live Up to Their Own Constitution In Politics

26. The Root of Jesse

27. ALRIGHT

28. When Robin Becomes Batman

Cooler Than the Other Side of the Pillow In Black Masculine Style

29. Brother, Can You Spare a Nod?

30. Behind the Mask

THE LIFE OF THE MIND

Class Notes At the Lectern

31. Contesting Racial Amnesia

32. Dreams of the Drum

33. Critical Race Theory in Action

Think About It In the Study

34. More Than Academic

35. The Life of the Black Mind in the Age of Digital Reproduction

TALK BACK

Tete-a-Tete In Conversation with the Younger Generation

36. In Baldwin's Shadow

37. Race, Racism, Racists, Antiracists

38. We Matter, We Care

Battling Brains On the Debate Stage

39. It Ain't the Demos, It's the Demon

40. Mean, Mad White Man and the Pugnacious Black Preacher?

41. What's Love Got to Do with It?

PUBLICS

The Right Address Speeches on the Public Stage

42. A Shovel or a Rope?

43. Like Hemingway Being Mugged by Morrison

The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble Protest Orations

44. When That Flag Goes Down America Comes Up

45. Golgotha in Memphis

Read the Papers! Opinion Pages

46. King's Dream, Rihanna's Demand

47. Model Minorities?

Graduated Tax On the Commencement Stage

48. The Weltanschauung of Lil Wayne, or What Can You Do with a Harvard Degree?

49. How We Become Who We Are

50. Is America Still a Dream?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781250135971

1250135974

OCLC:

1260693130