Why Is Michael Eric Dyson Influential?
According to Wikipedia , Michael Eric Dyson is an American academic, author, ordained minister, and radio host. He is a professor in the College of Arts and Science and in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. Described by Michael A. Fletcher as "a Princeton Ph.D. and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two", Dyson has authored or edited more than twenty books dealing with subjects such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Marvin Gaye, Barack Obama, Nas's debut album Illmatic, Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur and Hurricane Katrina.
Michael Eric Dyson's Published Works
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1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 0 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225 250 275 300 325 Published Papers Come hell or high water : Hurricane Katrina and the color of disaster (276) Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture (143) Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism (135) Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? (124) I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr (123) Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip-Hop (112) Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur (99) Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now (91) The Michael Eric Dyson Reader (89) Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X (78) Race Rules: Navigating The Color Line (68) Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture and Religion (57) Be like Mike?: Michael Jordan and the pedagogy of desire (53) Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. (50) Some problems concerning Knowledge in Plato's "Charmides" (31) Alcestis' children and the character of admetus (28) An Interview with Michael Eric Dyson (28) The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America (27) Prometheus and the wedge: Text and staging at Aeschylus, PV 54-81 (27) Born to use mics : reading Nas's Illmatic (24) Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (20) Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire: Nazarite Women's Per- formance in South Africa (20) Knowledge and hedonism in Plato's "Protagoras" (19) April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How it Changed America (16) The funeral of Astyanax in Euripides' Troades* (10) Between Apocalypse and Redemption: John Singleton's "Boyz N the Hood" (10) Avarice and Discontent in Horace's First Satire (9) Why I Love Black Women (9) Come Hell or High Water (9) Public Image Limited@@@Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism.@@@Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X.@@@Claiming Earth: Race, Rage, Rape, Redemption; Blacks Seeking a Culture of Enlightened Empowerment.@@@The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World. (9) Performance, Protest, and Prophecy in the Culture of Hip-Hop (9) Rap Culture, the Church, and American Society (8) Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins (6) Zeus and Philosophy in The Myth of Plato’s Phaedrus (6) Euripides Medea 1056-80 (5) Poetic Imitation in Plato Republic 3 (5) The Structure of The Laws' Speech In Plato's Crito (4) Oracle, Edict, and Curse in Oedipus Tyrannus (4) Immortality and Procreation in Plato’s Symposium (4) Race and racism: a symposium (4) Review Essay: Look Who's Listenin': Rap, Black Culture, and the Academy@@@Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture@@@Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America@@@Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism (3) Catullus 8 and 76 (3) Horace: Odes i 16 (3) This Is the Day: The March on Washington (2) Rap, Race, and Reality: Run-D.M.C. (2) Can You Hear Me Now (2) X Marks the Plots: A Critical Reading of Malcolm's Readers (2) Talthybius in Euripides’ Troades (2) Prophetic Fragments by Cornel West. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1988. 294 pp. $17.95: (1) The Second Assembly of the Gods in the Odyssey (1) Intellectuals and Their America (1) Palinurus and his Rudder: Vergil, Aeneid 5.858-9 (1) A Postmodern Afro-American Secular Spirituality: Michael Jackson (1) The Man Who Was King (1) Thucydides and the Sandbar at Pylos (1) Euripides, Medea 926–31 (1) Race Against Integration: Response (0) JAC Audio Interview: Michael Eric Dyson (0) Euripides, Troades 95-7 (0) Foreword: 2Pac’s Legacy From the Hip-Hop Platform (0) INVENTING AND INTERPRETING MALCOLM X (0) Aeschylus, Agamemnon 355–8 (0) Contesting Racial Amnesia: (0) Lucretius, 4.420–25 (0) Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line (0) Reflections on the 1988 Presidential Campaign (0) Reclaiming the King of the 1960s (0) Dr. Joseph L. White Opening Keynote (0) An Evening with Michael Eric Dyson, Best Selling Author, Scholar, and Cultural Critic (0) Religions and Terrors (0) The Church in The World: Martin's Death, and Ours? (0) Vergil, Aeneid 4.543 (0) Born to Use Mics (0) Siegmund and Wotan's Plan in Wagner's Ring (0) Reflecting Black@@@Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism. (0) On Malcolm X: Epic biography and black leadership (0) Malcolm X and the Revival of Black Nationalism (0) New Scientific Data Systems /SDS/ digital computer programs (0) On Different Ground: A Response to Michael Eric Dyson (0) Self-reinvention, spiritual uplift, and the mith and meaning of Malcolm X. Interview (0) A note on Virgil, Aeneid 5.315–19 (0) The Hilltop 2-26-2007 (0) "God Almighty Has Spoken from Washington, D.C.": American Society and Christian Faith (0) Where are You Going to, My Pretty Maids? (0) Assessing Black Culture (0) Contributors (0) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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