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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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"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
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Edition
First edition.
Extent
pages cm
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
Isbn
9781250135995
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Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America
Title
Tears we cannot stop
Title remainder
a sermon to white America
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Michael Eric Dyson
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Author
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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
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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
  • United States
  • African Americans
  • Whites
  • Whites
  • Racism
  • Race discrimination
  • Race relations
  • African Americans
  • Race discrimination
  • Race relations
  • Race relations
  • Racism
  • Whites
  • Whites
  • United States
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Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America, Michael Eric Dyson
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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
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ocn968158669
Edition
First edition.
Extent
pages cm
Isbn
9781250135995
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(hardcover)
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2016049919
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • (Sirsi) i9781250135995
  • (OCoLC)968158669
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Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America, Michael Eric Dyson
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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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
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9781250135995
  • (OCoLC)968158669

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