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Can You Hear Me Now?

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By Michael Eric Dyson

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“Before I wanted to write the world, I sought to right it,” declares Michael Eric Dyson. As one of America’s most visible, inspirational, and quotable public intellectuals, Dyson has weighed in on a vast array of issues. In his books and newspaper articles, over television and radio waves, and from podiums to pulpits, Dyson has brought awareness and insight to questions of culture, race, gender, and politics. Now, twenty years into his illustrious career, Michael Eric Dyson offers his fans and admirers a compendium of new and classic writing.

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  • President Barack Obama
    “Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison. He is an outstanding scholar and an outstanding author.”

    Vanity Fair
    “One of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today.”

    Jay Z
    “Michael Eric Dyson . . . is a world-class scholar and the most brilliant interpreter of hip hop culture we have.”

    Steven Nadler, Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin
    “If any one person is continuing W. E. B. Du Bois's idea of the engaged public intellectual on African-American issues, it's Michael Eric Dyson.”

    Naomi Wolff
    “The ideal public intellectual for our time: translator, boundary-breaker, and healer of a war torn culture."

    The Boston Phoenix
    “The preeminent black intellectual.”

    Lawrence Bobo, the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University
    “Few have carried on the legacy of Du Bois's public intellectualism as well, or with as much verve . . . as Professor Michael Eric Dyson.”

    The Philadelphia Weekly
    “Michael Eric Dyson is reshaping what it means to be a public intellectual by becoming the most visible black academic of his time.”

On Sale
Apr 26, 2011
Page Count
316 pages
Publisher
Civitas Books
ISBN-13
9780465019670

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Michael Eric Dyson

About the Author

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of over twenty books, a widely celebrated professor, a prominent public intellectual, an ordained Baptist minister, and a noted political analyst. He is a two-time NAACP Image Award winner, and the winner of the American Book Award for Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. His book The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America was a Kirkus Prize finalist. He is the co-author of Unequal with Marc Favreau. He is also a highly sought after public speaker who is known to excite both secular and sacred audiences. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He invites you to follow him on Twitter @michaeledyson and on his official Facebook page (facebook.com/michaelericdyson).

Marc Favreau is the director of editorial programs at the New Press, the acclaimed author of Crash,  Spies, and Attacked!, and coauthor (with Michael Eric Dyson) of Unequal: A Story of America, a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. He lives in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

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