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Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America / Michael Eric Dyson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: 228 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250135995
  • 1250135990
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.800973 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.615 .D97 2017
Contents:
Call to worship -- Hymns of praise -- Invocation -- Scripture reading -- Sermon. Repenting of whiteness. Inventing whiteness ; The five stages of white grief ; The plague of white innocence -- Being Black in America. Nigger ; Our own worst enemy? ; Coptopia -- Benediction -- Offering plate -- Prelude to service -- Closing prayer.
Summary: Fifty years ago, Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong. Now he responds to that question. If society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths, including being honest about how Black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Course reserves
Print book for loan Lineberger Memorial Library Southern Circulating Collection (Main & Upper Levels) E185.615 .D97 2017 Available 35898001667563
Book on Reserve Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg Reserve Books (Short-Term Checkouts) E185.615 .D97 2017 1 Available 31826003521227

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Call to worship -- Hymns of praise -- Invocation -- Scripture reading -- Sermon. Repenting of whiteness. Inventing whiteness ; The five stages of white grief ; The plague of white innocence -- Being Black in America. Nigger ; Our own worst enemy? ; Coptopia -- Benediction -- Offering plate -- Prelude to service -- Closing prayer.

Fifty years ago, Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong. Now he responds to that question. If society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths, including being honest about how Black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.

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