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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 43-year-old Black man, was killedduring an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night's events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation's history and the sort of social unrest we...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 530 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 ideasabout 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...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and a valiant activist, Jerome Smith. It was Smith's relentless, unfiltered fury that set Kennedy on his heels, reducing him to sullen silence. Kennedy walked away from the nearly three-hour meeting angry that the black...