Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
- ISBN-10
- 1250136008
- ISBN-13
- 9781250136008
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-01-17
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Author
- Michael Eric Dyson
Description
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, INDIEBOUND, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CHRONICLE HERALD, SALISBURY POST, GUELPH MERCURY TRIBUNE, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post • Bustle • Men's Journal • The Chicago Reader • StarTribune • Blavity • The Guardian • NBC New York's Bill's Books • Kirkus • Essence “One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in the tradition of Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and King's Why We Can't Wait." —The New York Times Book Review Toni Morrison hails Tears We Cannot Stop as "Elegantly written and powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish." Stephen King says: "Here’s a sermon that’s as fierce as it is lucid...If you’re black, you’ll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph. If you’re white, Dyson tells you what you need to know—what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said amen." Short, emotional, literary, powerful—Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read. As the country grapples with racist division at a level not seen since the 1960s, one man's voice soars above the rest with conviction and compassion. In his 2016 New York Times op-ed piece "Death in Black and White," Michael Eric Dyson moved a nation. Now he continues to speak out in Tears We Cannot Stop—a provocative and deeply personal call for change. Dyson argues that if we are to make real racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted. "The time is at hand for reckoning with the past, recognizing the truth of the present, and moving together to redeem the nation for our future. If we don't act now, if you don't address race immediately, there very well may be no future."
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
By Michael Eric Dyson" Shaun King: “I kid you not–I think it’s the most important book I’ve read all year...” Harry Belafonte: “Dyson has finally written the book I always wanted to read...a tour de force.” Joy-Ann Reid: A work of searing prose ...
-
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
By Michael Eric DysonIn December 1998, Tyisha Shenee Miller, a Black woman from Rubidoux, California, was shot and killed by police officers ... Kathryn Johnston, a ninety-two-year-old Black woman from Atlanta, Georgia, was killed in 2006 by undercover cops ...
-
Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America
By Michael Eric DysonI'm dead.” He soon fell unconscious and was hustled into an ambulance and sent to the hospital. ... Jesus resisted Roman oppression of the Jews; as Biblical scholar Obery Hendricks notes in his book The Politics of Jesus, “Jesus was put ...
-
Come Hell Or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
By Michael Eric Dyson, Paul ElliottWhat Hurricane Katrina reveals about the fault lines of race and poverty in America-and what lessons we must take from the flood-from best-selling ''hip-hop intellectual'' Michael Eric Dyson Does George W. Bush care about black people?
-
JAY-Z: Made in America
By Michael Eric DysonIt was that sense of blackness that linked a scholar like me and a rapper like him when we shared a five-hour flight in 2018 from Los Angeles to New York. “Are you Michael Eric Dyson?” he asked as he slid into the seat next to me.
-
The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
By Michael Eric DysonMichael Eric Dyson ... He based his decision , he said , on the fact that he had never known a scholar to be awarded tenure less than a year after he completed his Ph.D. , with one exception - a scholar who would go on to win a Nobel ...
-
I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr
By Michael Eric Dyson437; Lewis, King, pp. 295-96. to antagonize the man: Fairclough, "King and Vietnam," p. 24. ... Johnson was noticeably frosty: Lentz, Symbols, p. 176. Johnson encouraged King to meet: Ibid.; Garrow, Bearing, p. 443; Noer, "Martin Luther ...
-
Holler If You Hear Me (2006)
By Michael Eric DysonHobsbawm, Primitive Rebels, and Bandits; Seal, The Outlaw Legend; Duncan, Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons. 4. Boccaccio, Decameron. 5. Davis and Troupe, Miles: The Autobiography; Carr, Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography. 6.
-
The Color of Christ: The Son of God & the Saga of Race in America
By Edward J. Blum, Paul Harvey4 Kenneth S. Greenberg, ed., The Confessions ofNat Turner and Related Documents (Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin's, 1996), 45-47. 5 Ibid., 48, 57. 6 Joseph Smith, The Doctrine and Covenants of the Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...
-
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By Dr. Robin DiAngeloIn this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.