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Dyson, Michael Eric,

Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America / Michael Eric Dyson - First edition - 228 pages ; 20 cm

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

ISBN: 9781250135995 1250135990

LCCN: 2016498068

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Racism--History--United States--20th century
Racism--History--United States--21st century
Race discrimination--History--United States--20th century
Race discrimination--History--United States--21st century
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity
African Americans--Social conditions

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Race relations--History--20th century
United States--Race relations--History--21st century

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: E185.615 / .D97 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 305.800973