Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson
(Author)
Description
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER and NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption.
"Powerfully illuminating, heart-wrenching, and enlightening." -Ibram X. Kendi, bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist
"Crushingly powerful, Long Time Coming is an unfiltered Marlboro of black pain." -Isabel Wilkerson, bestselling author of Caste
Product Details
Price
$25.99
$24.17
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publish Date
December 01, 2020
Pages
240
Dimensions
5.0 X 7.6 X 1.1 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781250276759
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About the Author
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON--distinguished University Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, College of Arts & Science, and of Ethics and Society, Divinity School, and Centennial Professor at Vanderbilt University--is one of America's premier public intellectuals and the author of seven New York Times bestsellers including JAY-Z, Tears We Cannot Stop, and What Truth Sounds Like, and most recently Long Time Coming. A contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, Dr. Dyson is a recipient of two NAACP Image awards and the 2020 Langston Hughes Festival Medallion. Former president Barack Obama has noted: "Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison."
Reviews
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"The ostensible purpose of Long Time Coming, organized as a string of letters, is to explain what led to the unrest that swept the nation last summer after George Floyd's killing and what should be done to address it. But Dyson's grander purpose, perhaps, is to bare the deep wounds left by generations of White-authored violence. He wants readers to feel that pain." --Michael A. Fletcher, The Washington Post "The writing is smart and the research that informs it is great, but what makes this is an important book is Dyson's voice, which is strong but always pregnant with frustration, pain, admiration and, ultimately, hope." --NPR Book Review "[Dyson] is rarely afraid to call out bigotry. In his new book, he imagines what it would be like if victims of racism, police brutality or gang violence had not lost their lives. Each chapter is a letter to what he calls the martyrs of the struggle." --NPR "Dyson's formidable twenty-third book probes this tragic notion about the violent silencing of the martyred, with Dyson hosting a poignant conversation...elegantly argued..." --Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire "A sweeping overview of racism in America ... A timely, fervent message from an important voice." --Kirkus Reviews "Dyson provides valuable historical and sociopolitical context in his vivid descriptions ... Rich with feeling and insight, this elegiac account hits home." --Publisher's Weekly "Michael Eric Dyson is one of the nation's most thoughtful and critical thinkers in social inequality and the demands of justice. Long Time Coming, his latest formidable, compelling book, has much to offer on our nation's crucial need for racial reckoning and the way forward." --Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy "Michael Eric Dyson's Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America, is a brilliant and fiercely eloquent work that traces the roots of racism from slavery and Jim Crow to police brutality and the plague of Black killings in our own day. In gorgeous prose and erudite analysis, Dyson argues that both the trap of white comfort and the peril of cancel culture thwart a genuine reckoning with race in our country. Long Time Coming is a searing cry for racial justice from one of our nation's greatest thinkers and most compelling prophets." --Robin DiAngelo, bestselling author of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism "One of the country's most prominent scholars on race has a new book" --AP News"Dyson's eloquent, exacting, and consequential scrutiny of 'the racial calamity at the heart of our democracy' is a catalyst for discussion and continued calls for justice, a work essential to the struggle to achieve insight, genuine change, and healing." --Booklist, starred review "In Long Time Coming, social commentator Dyson traces the history of antiblack sentiment that culminated in this reckoning with America's oldest sin." --AARP Sisters Newsletter
