The Resource Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America, Michael Eric Dyson
Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America, Michael Eric Dyson
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The item Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America, Michael Eric Dyson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- "In the wake of yet another set of police killings of black men, Michael Eric Dyson wrote a tell-it-straight, no holds barred piece for the NYT on Sunday July 7: Death in Black and White (It was updated within a day to acknowledge the killing of police officers in Dallas). The response has been overwhelming. Beyoncé and Isabel Wilkerson tweeted it, JJ Abrams, among many other prominent people, wrote him a long fan letter. The NYT closed the comments section after 2,500 responses, and Dyson has been on NPR, BBC, and CNN non-stop since then. Fifty years ago Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause: Nothing. Dyson believes he was wrong. In Tears We Cannot Stop, he responds to that question. If we are to make real racial progress, we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed or discounted. As Dyson writes: At birth you are given a pair of binoculars that see black life from a distance, never with the texture of intimacy. Those binoculars are privilege; they are status, regardless of your class. In fact the greatest privilege that exists is for white folk to get stopped by a cop and not end up dead...The problem is you do not want to know anything different from what you think you know...You think we have been handed everything because we fought your selfish insistence that the world, all of it--all its resources, all its riches, all its bounty, all its grace--should be yours first and foremost, and if there's anything left, why then we can have some, but only if we ask politely and behave gratefully"--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- pages cm
- Contents
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- I. Call to worship
- II. Hymns of praise
- III. Invocation
- IV. Scripture reading
- V. Sermon
- Repenting of whiteness
- Inventing whiteness
- Five stages of white grief
- The plague of white innocence
- Recovering blackness
- Nigger
- Our own worst enemy?
- Coptopia
- VI. Benediction
- VII. Offering plate
- VIII. Closing prayer
- Isbn
- 9781250135995
- Label
- Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America
- Title
- Tears we cannot stop
- Title remainder
- a sermon to white America
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael Eric Dyson
- Subject
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- Race discrimination
- Race discrimination -- United States
- Race relations
- Race relations -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Race relations -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Racism
- African Americans -- Race identity
- United States
- United States -- Race relations
- Whites -- Attitudes
- Whites -- Race identity
- Whites -- Race identity -- United States
- Whites -- United States -- Attitudes
- Racism -- United States
- African Americans -- Race identity
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the wake of yet another set of police killings of black men, Michael Eric Dyson wrote a tell-it-straight, no holds barred piece for the NYT on Sunday July 7: Death in Black and White (It was updated within a day to acknowledge the killing of police officers in Dallas). The response has been overwhelming. Beyoncé and Isabel Wilkerson tweeted it, JJ Abrams, among many other prominent people, wrote him a long fan letter. The NYT closed the comments section after 2,500 responses, and Dyson has been on NPR, BBC, and CNN non-stop since then. Fifty years ago Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause: Nothing. Dyson believes he was wrong. In Tears We Cannot Stop, he responds to that question. If we are to make real racial progress, we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed or discounted. As Dyson writes: At birth you are given a pair of binoculars that see black life from a distance, never with the texture of intimacy. Those binoculars are privilege; they are status, regardless of your class. In fact the greatest privilege that exists is for white folk to get stopped by a cop and not end up dead...The problem is you do not want to know anything different from what you think you know...You think we have been handed everything because we fought your selfish insistence that the world, all of it--all its resources, all its riches, all its bounty, all its grace--should be yours first and foremost, and if there's anything left, why then we can have some, but only if we ask politely and behave gratefully"--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dyson, Michael Eric
- Dewey number
- 305.800973
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E185.615
- LC item number
- .D976 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- African Americans
- Whites
- Whites
- Racism
- Race discrimination
- Race relations
- African Americans
- Race discrimination
- Race relations
- Race relations
- Racism
- Whites
- Whites
- United States
- Label
- Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America, Michael Eric Dyson
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- Carrier MARC source
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- Contents
- I. Call to worship -- II. Hymns of praise -- III. Invocation -- IV. Scripture reading -- V. Sermon -- Repenting of whiteness -- Inventing whiteness -- Five stages of white grief -- The plague of white innocence -- Recovering blackness -- Nigger -- Our own worst enemy? -- Coptopia -- VI. Benediction -- VII. Offering plate -- VIII. Closing prayer
- Control code
- ocn968158669
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- pages cm
- Isbn
- 9781250135995
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2016049919
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781250135995
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- Label
- Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America, Michael Eric Dyson
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- I. Call to worship -- II. Hymns of praise -- III. Invocation -- IV. Scripture reading -- V. Sermon -- Repenting of whiteness -- Inventing whiteness -- Five stages of white grief -- The plague of white innocence -- Recovering blackness -- Nigger -- Our own worst enemy? -- Coptopia -- VI. Benediction -- VII. Offering plate -- VIII. Closing prayer
- Control code
- ocn968158669
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- pages cm
- Isbn
- 9781250135995
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2016049919
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781250135995
- (OCoLC)968158669
Subject
- Race discrimination
- Race discrimination -- United States
- Race relations
- Race relations -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Race relations -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Racism
- African Americans -- Race identity
- United States
- United States -- Race relations
- Whites -- Attitudes
- Whites -- Race identity
- Whites -- Race identity -- United States
- Whites -- United States -- Attitudes
- Racism -- United States
- African Americans -- Race identity
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