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

By: Dyson, Michael Eric [author]Material type: TextTextEdition: First editionDescription: 228 pages ; 20 cmISBN: 9781250135995; 1250135990Subject(s): Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Racism -- United States -- History -- 21st century | Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 21st century | Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | African Americans -- Social conditions | United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Race relations -- History -- 21st centuryGenre/Form: History. DDC classification: 305.800973 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
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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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