Open MikeHere, 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, Open Mike is a perfect introduction to Dyson's work and a must-have for students and scholars in African American Studies and Cultural Studies. |
Contents
Religious | 42 |
Seamless Theory Racial | 61 |
Racial Paradigms Postcolonial Theory | 79 |
Excavating White Identities | 99 |
Dissident Speech Plantation Negro | 126 |
Is Postmodernism Just Modernism in Drag? | 151 |
Jazz Origins and | 179 |
The 1968 Olympics | 207 |
Television Race and Culture | 227 |
Intellectuals Black Comedy and the Politics of SelfCriticism | 248 |
Black Religion in Crisis | 305 |
The Bible Sexual Ethics and | 360 |
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Acknowledgments | 416 |
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