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Open Mike - by Michael Eric Dyson (Paperback)

Open Mike - by  Michael Eric Dyson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Focusing on racial identity, popular cultures, and freedom struggles, these essays and interviews are collected from one of the most insightful and thought-provoking black intellectuals to emerge since the heyday of the Civil Rights Movement.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Exploring such topics as whiteness as seen through a black man's eye, modernism and postmodernism in black culture, and the emancipating role of black music from the plantation to the ghetto, <i>Open Mike </i>is a perfect introduction to Dyson's work and a must-have for students and scholars in African American Studies and Cultural Studies.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Michael Eric Dyson</b> has been named by <i>Ebony</i> as one of the one hundred most influential black Americans and is the author of fourteen other books. He is University Professor at Georgetown University and lives in Washington, D.C.

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