**One of Kirkus Review's Best Books About Being Black in America On
Detroit Free Press' Holiday Book Gift List
Dyson's work clearly comes from a deep well of love--for his country,
for his people and for the intellectual and cultural figures he admires.
--New York Times**
Entertaining Race **is a splendid way to spend quality time
reading one of the most remarkable thinkers in America today.
**--Speaker Nancy Pelosi
To read Entertaining Race is to encounter the life-long
vocation of a teacher who preaches, a preacher who teaches and an
activist who cannot rest until all are set free.
--Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock
For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent
role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor,
cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has
presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and
culture. Now for the first time he brings together the various
components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits.
Entertaining Race is a testament to Dyson's consistent celebration of
the outsized impact of African American culture and politics on this
country. Black people were forced to entertain white people in slavery,
have been forced to entertain the idea of race from the start, and must
find entertaining ways to make race an object of national conversation.
Dyson's career embodies these and other ways of performing Blackness,
and in these pages, ranging from 1991 to the present, he entertains race
with his pen, voice and body, and occasionally, alongside luminaries
like Cornel West, David Blight, Ibram X. Kendi, Master P, MC Lyte,
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alicia Garza, John McWhorter, and Jordan Peterson.
Most of this work will be new to readers, a fresh light for many of his
long-time fans and an inspiring introduction for newcomers.
Entertaining Race offers a compelling vision from the mind and heart
of one of America's most important and enduring voices.
