Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America by Michael Eric Dyson

"Dyson’s work clearly comes from a deep well of love―for his country, for his people and for the intellectual and cultural figures he admires." ―New York Times "Entertaining Race is a splendid way to spend quality time reading one of the most remarkable thinkers in America today." ―Speaker Nancy Pelosi "To read Entertaining Race is to encounter the life-long vocation of a teacher who preaches, a preacher who teaches and an activist who cannot rest until all are set free." ―Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and culture. Now for the first time he brings together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits. Entertaining Race is a testament to Dyson’s consistent celebration of the outsized im