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 enlarge | Author: Michael Dyson
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 161004
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0679781560
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800973
EAN: 9780679781561
ASIN: 0679781560
Publication Date: September 2, 1997
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very thought provoking January 3, 2000
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
this man is a genius.whenever he speaks or debates someone i'm all ears and eyes.i've enjoyed all of his books.he has a of wording ideas and thoughts and tieing everything as one.he could connect dr.king,michael jackson,malcolm x&stevie wonder into one with the plight&struggle.i once saw him on sinbad's vibe show with the brillant nikki giovanni and he was talking and resighting the brillant lyrics of rakim.my mouth hit the floor.i wish he had a show alongside of tony brown&rev jessie jackson.this man speaks volumes in this book and is highly intelligent.a must read.
 Dyson: one among several controversial scholars talking race October 27, 1996
10 out of 16 found this review helpful
Michael Eric Dyson is one among several scholars talking about race. It is especially intriguing to hear his perspective since he has been pastor of three Baptist churches, and is now a professor at UNC, Chapel Hill. His field is communication studies, but he hardly ever attends communication conferences. Yet, his ideas are cutting edge, simple because he critiques Black cultural production from an intellectual standpoint. I would recommend that anyyone read any of his texts, because of its uniqueness. However, it is important to understand the perspective. He is an African American male scholar with a conservative slant. The thing that seems to make Black male scholars very popular among the intellectual elite is the conservative, republican view that fits so well into the deeply rooted patriarchy of this country. This is why it is so interesting that persons such as Glenn Loury, Cornel West, William Julius Wilson, Shelby Steele, and Dyson are so preoccupied with materialistic representations of cultural reality. What poses as economic empowerment is an obscure manifestation of political and sub-cultural perspectives. _Race Rules_ is no different. It will be a bestseller, not because of its eloquent prose, but because of its ability to capture the tone of the American ethos - a "survival of the fittest" mentality
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