{"product_id":"entertaining-race-performing-blackness-in-america-9781250400963b","title":"Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eOne of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eKirkus Review's\u003c\/span\u003e Best Books About Being Black in America \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eOn \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eDetroit Free Press'\u003c\/span\u003e Holiday Book Gift List\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eEntertaining Race\u003c\/span\u003e is a testament to Dyson’s consistent celebration of the outsized impact of African American culture and politics on this country. Black people were forced to entertain white people in slavery, have been forced to entertain the idea of race from the start, and must find entertaining ways to make race an object of national conversation. Dyson’s career embodies these and other ways of performing Blackness, and in these pages, ranging from 1991 to the present, he entertains race with his pen, voice and body, and occasionally, alongside luminaries like Cornel West, David Blight, Ibram X. Kendi, Master P, MC Lyte, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alicia Garza, John McWhorter, and Jordan Peterson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost of this work will be new to readers, a fresh light for many of his long-time fans and an inspiring introduction for newcomers. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eEntertaining Race\u003c\/span\u003e offers a compelling vision from the mind and heart of one of America’s most important and enduring voices.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\"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.\" —\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eEntertaining Race\u003c\/span\u003e is a splendid way to spend quality time reading one of the most remarkable thinkers in America today.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To read \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eEntertaining Race\u003c\/span\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42824173191248,"sku":"9781250400963B","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781250400963-l.jpg?v=1785895502","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/entertaining-race-performing-blackness-in-america-9781250400963b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}