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70/100Critics
53/100Scholars
Author:
Michael Eric Dyson
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Date:
December 1, 2020
From the New York Timesbestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop comes a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption.
What The Reviewers Say
... a timely, heartfelt book that uses history to slice our nation open and show how racism is a sickness that has shaped our culture and society in a variety of insidious ways.
Some passages in the book are almost poetic, as Dyson riffs from one subject to the next and from the historical to the contemporary with the improvisational flair of a jazzman. But some other sections raise eyebrows.
Dyson interweaves the history of American slavery, highlighting the manner in which the vestiges of this institution continue to oppress African Americans economically and to subjugate their bodies. But this recounting does not go without the joy note—Dyson also tells of Black resistance to slavery and Jim Crow through rebellion, protest and the court system.
... a series of profound and powerful letters written to Black martyrs to racial violence.
