ponts of reference for the future... in other words...
no one will understand this update but me
Dyson's project is very much in the tradition of recent work by a number of young African-American cultural critics like Tricia Rose, Hilton Als, bell hooks, Greg Tate, Wahneema Lubiano, Elizabeth Alexander and Herman Gray, to name but a few. Reflecting Black is much more than a cultural critique in the formal sense. It interrogates the political, social and moral crises confronting American society generally and African-American communities in particular
where the consolidating 'narrative of racial unity' meets the 'perplexing and chaotic politics of racial identity'
BAKARI KITWANA
Author of The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture
www.urbanthinktank.org
Dyson, Michael Eric.
Between God and gangsta rap : bearing witness to black culture / Michael Eric Dyson.
New York : Oxford Unviersity Press, c1996.
Dyson, Michael Eric.
Open mike : reflections on racial identities, popular culture, and freedom struggles / Michael Eric Dyson.
New York, NY : Basic Civitas Books, c2002.
Dyson's project is very much in the tradition of recent work by a number of young African-American cultural critics like Tricia Rose, Hilton Als, bell hooks, Greg Tate, Wahneema Lubiano, Elizabeth Alexander and Herman Gray, to name but a few. Reflecting Black is much more than a cultural critique in the formal sense. It interrogates the political, social and moral crises confronting American society generally and African-American communities in particular
where the consolidating 'narrative of racial unity' meets the 'perplexing and chaotic politics of racial identity'
BAKARI KITWANA
Author of The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture
www.urbanthinktank.org
Dyson, Michael Eric.
Between God and gangsta rap : bearing witness to black culture / Michael Eric Dyson.
New York : Oxford Unviersity Press, c1996.
Dyson, Michael Eric.
Open mike : reflections on racial identities, popular culture, and freedom struggles / Michael Eric Dyson.
New York, NY : Basic Civitas Books, c2002.