Thu January 19, 2017
Berkeley Arts & Letters presents: Michael Eric Dyson / Tears We Cannot Stop
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at Howard Johnson Hotel-shattuck Plaza
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As the country endures its greatest racial crisis since the 60s, and grapples with Donald J. Trump's shocking election as president, one of America's leading black voices speaks out honestly and provocatively to white America...
In the wake of the police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling last summer, renowned public intellectual and social critic Michael Eric Dyson wrote an impassioned op-ed for the New York Times, Death in Black and White, (July 2016) that set the nation on fire. Eschewing his scholarly voice, Dyson instead spoke directly from his heart about the grief and rage that engulfed black America. He also spoke bluntly to white America, asking his fellow white citizens to take off their blinders and see the true state of race in the nation. Dyson’s essay garnered so many responses that the comment section had to be shut down at 2,500... but not before Beyoncé shared the op-ed on social media and Isabel Wilkerson praised it as an unfiltered Marlboro of black pain that was crushingly powerful.
In Tears We Cannot Stop, Dyson amplifies the themes he first voiced in that influential op-ed that, addressing a nation teetering on the edge of the political abyss and inflamed with raw racial tension. Dyson pulls no punches in telling the truth about the chaos that looms if we don’t address the underlying forces that threaten our nation's moral and political health.
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Please Note: This event takes place in the Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel Shattuck Plaza at 2086 Allston Way, Berkeley, California 94704.
*Tickets* start at $12.00 and are available NOW at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2738824!
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What makes Tears We Cannot Stop so compelling is that Dyson digs deep into our racial past while also offering the most up to date investigation of the crises we confront, as well as the opportunities we have to make things better. Dyson offers a unique and empowering blend of historical perspective and contemporary analysis as he probes whiteness in America: how it was invented, how it grieves it's slow but certain erosion, how it takes refuge in notions of innocence and how it has reasserted itself with ominous ferocity as Donald J. Trump takes up residence in the Oval Office.
With the pen of a poet, the heart of a preacher, and the mind of a scholar, Professor Dyson leaves the classroom to tell tales out of school, exposing the heart of blackness and its myriad struggles and obstacles, while also probing the national psyche to deliver a riveting, eloquent, and hard-hitting sermon on the nation's malaise, and our undeniable chances for recovery. Tears We Cannot Stop is Michael Eric Dyson at his finest: he pokes, prods, and challenges us, making us uncomfortable before offering profound and inspiring words to uplift us. In the tradition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, short, emotional, literary, powerful, Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that ALL Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read.
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Here's a sermon that's as fierce as it is lucid. It shook me up, but in a good way. This is how it works if you're black in America, this is what happens, and this is how it feels. If you're black, you'll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph. If you're white, Dyson tells you what you need to know -- what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said Amen. -- Stephen King
Elegantly written, Tears We Cannot Stop is powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish. -- Toni Morrison
Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison. -- President Barack Obama
A world-class scholar, and the most brilliant interpreter of hip hop culture we have. -- Jay Z
One of our most important black intellectuals limns the lives of black Americans with subtle, lucid rigor. As both an academic and Baptist minister, Dyson winningly combines the roles of prophet and teacher for which Cornel West has gotten such acclaim but to even better effect. -- Kirkus Reviews
In [Dyson's] prose one hears the fervor of a Sunday sermon; in his ideas one sees the analytic scrupulousness of a man who knows a thing or two about tenure committees. -- Time magazine
One of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today. -- Vanity Fair
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Michael Eric Dyson is one of America’s premier public intellectuals. He occupies the distinguished position of University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, has been an ordained minister for 35 years, is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and is a contributing editor for The New Republic and ESPN’s The Undefeated. Ebony magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans.
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RSVP Here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1523898730960807/
Tickets Here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2738824
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In the wake of the police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling last summer, renowned public intellectual and social critic Michael Eric Dyson wrote an impassioned op-ed for the New York Times, Death in Black and White, (July 2016) that set the nation on fire. Eschewing his scholarly voice, Dyson instead spoke directly from his heart about the grief and rage that engulfed black America. He also spoke bluntly to white America, asking his fellow white citizens to take off their blinders and see the true state of race in the nation. Dyson’s essay garnered so many responses that the comment section had to be shut down at 2,500... but not before Beyoncé shared the op-ed on social media and Isabel Wilkerson praised it as an unfiltered Marlboro of black pain that was crushingly powerful.
In Tears We Cannot Stop, Dyson amplifies the themes he first voiced in that influential op-ed that, addressing a nation teetering on the edge of the political abyss and inflamed with raw racial tension. Dyson pulls no punches in telling the truth about the chaos that looms if we don’t address the underlying forces that threaten our nation's moral and political health.
___________________________________________________
Please Note: This event takes place in the Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel Shattuck Plaza at 2086 Allston Way, Berkeley, California 94704.
*Tickets* start at $12.00 and are available NOW at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2738824!
___________________________________________________
What makes Tears We Cannot Stop so compelling is that Dyson digs deep into our racial past while also offering the most up to date investigation of the crises we confront, as well as the opportunities we have to make things better. Dyson offers a unique and empowering blend of historical perspective and contemporary analysis as he probes whiteness in America: how it was invented, how it grieves it's slow but certain erosion, how it takes refuge in notions of innocence and how it has reasserted itself with ominous ferocity as Donald J. Trump takes up residence in the Oval Office.
With the pen of a poet, the heart of a preacher, and the mind of a scholar, Professor Dyson leaves the classroom to tell tales out of school, exposing the heart of blackness and its myriad struggles and obstacles, while also probing the national psyche to deliver a riveting, eloquent, and hard-hitting sermon on the nation's malaise, and our undeniable chances for recovery. Tears We Cannot Stop is Michael Eric Dyson at his finest: he pokes, prods, and challenges us, making us uncomfortable before offering profound and inspiring words to uplift us. In the tradition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, short, emotional, literary, powerful, Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that ALL Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read.
___________________________________________________
Here's a sermon that's as fierce as it is lucid. It shook me up, but in a good way. This is how it works if you're black in America, this is what happens, and this is how it feels. If you're black, you'll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph. If you're white, Dyson tells you what you need to know -- what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said Amen. -- Stephen King
Elegantly written, Tears We Cannot Stop is powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish. -- Toni Morrison
Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison. -- President Barack Obama
A world-class scholar, and the most brilliant interpreter of hip hop culture we have. -- Jay Z
One of our most important black intellectuals limns the lives of black Americans with subtle, lucid rigor. As both an academic and Baptist minister, Dyson winningly combines the roles of prophet and teacher for which Cornel West has gotten such acclaim but to even better effect. -- Kirkus Reviews
In [Dyson's] prose one hears the fervor of a Sunday sermon; in his ideas one sees the analytic scrupulousness of a man who knows a thing or two about tenure committees. -- Time magazine
One of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today. -- Vanity Fair
___________________________________________________
Michael Eric Dyson is one of America’s premier public intellectuals. He occupies the distinguished position of University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, has been an ordained minister for 35 years, is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and is a contributing editor for The New Republic and ESPN’s The Undefeated. Ebony magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans.
More Info Here: http://www.booksmith.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-presents-michael-eric-dyson-tears-we-cannot-stop
RSVP Here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1523898730960807/
Tickets Here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2738824
As the country endures its greatest racial crisis since the 60s, and grapples with Donald J. Trump's shocking election as president, one of America's leading black voices speaks out honestly and provocatively to white America...
In the wake of the police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling last summer, renowned public intellectual and social critic Michael Eric Dyson wrote an impassioned op-ed for the New York Times, Death in Black and White, (July 2016) that set the nation on fire. Eschewing his scholarly voice, Dyson instead spoke directly from his heart about the grief and rage that engulfed black America. He also spoke bluntly to white America, asking his fellow white citizens to take off their blinders and see the true state of race in the nation. Dyson’s essay garnered so many responses that the comment section had to be shut down at 2,500... but not before Beyoncé shared the op-ed on social media and Isabel Wilkerson praised it as an unfiltered Marlboro of black pain that was crushingly powerful.
In Tears We Cannot Stop, Dyson amplifies the themes he first voiced in that influential op-ed that, addressing a nation teetering on the edge of the political abyss and inflamed with raw racial tension. Dyson pulls no punches in telling the truth about the chaos that looms if we don’t address the underlying forces that threaten our nation's moral and political health.
___________________________________________________
Please Note: This event takes place in the Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel Shattuck Plaza at 2086 Allston Way, Berkeley, California 94704.
*Tickets* start at $12.00 and are available NOW at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2738824!
___________________________________________________
What makes Tears We Cannot Stop so compelling is that Dyson digs deep into our racial past while also offering the most up to date investigation of the crises we confront, as well as the opportunities we have to make things better. Dyson offers a unique and empowering blend of historical perspective and contemporary analysis as he probes whiteness in America: how it was invented, how it grieves it's slow but certain erosion, how it takes refuge in notions of innocence and how it has reasserted itself with ominous ferocity as Donald J. Trump takes up residence in the Oval Office.
With the pen of a poet, the heart of a preacher, and the mind of a scholar, Professor Dyson leaves the classroom to tell tales out of school, exposing the heart of blackness and its myriad struggles and obstacles, while also probing the national psyche to deliver a riveting, eloquent, and hard-hitting sermon on the nation's malaise, and our undeniable chances for recovery. Tears We Cannot Stop is Michael Eric Dyson at his finest: he pokes, prods, and challenges us, making us uncomfortable before offering profound and inspiring words to uplift us. In the tradition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, short, emotional, literary, powerful, Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that ALL Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read.
___________________________________________________
Here's a sermon that's as fierce as it is lucid. It shook me up, but in a good way. This is how it works if you're black in America, this is what happens, and this is how it feels. If you're black, you'll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph. If you're white, Dyson tells you what you need to know -- what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said Amen. -- Stephen King
Elegantly written, Tears We Cannot Stop is powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish. -- Toni Morrison
Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison. -- President Barack Obama
A world-class scholar, and the most brilliant interpreter of hip hop culture we have. -- Jay Z
One of our most important black intellectuals limns the lives of black Americans with subtle, lucid rigor. As both an academic and Baptist minister, Dyson winningly combines the roles of prophet and teacher for which Cornel West has gotten such acclaim but to even better effect. -- Kirkus Reviews
In [Dyson's] prose one hears the fervor of a Sunday sermon; in his ideas one sees the analytic scrupulousness of a man who knows a thing or two about tenure committees. -- Time magazine
One of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today. -- Vanity Fair
___________________________________________________
Michael Eric Dyson is one of America’s premier public intellectuals. He occupies the distinguished position of University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, has been an ordained minister for 35 years, is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and is a contributing editor for The New Republic and ESPN’s The Undefeated. Ebony magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans.
More Info Here: http://www.booksmith.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-presents-michael-eric-dyson-tears-we-cannot-stop
RSVP Here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1523898730960807/
Tickets Here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2738824
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In the wake of the police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling last summer, renowned public intellectual and social critic Michael Eric Dyson wrote an impassioned op-ed for the New York Times, Death in Black and White, (July 2016) that set the nation on fire. Eschewing his scholarly voice, Dyson instead spoke directly from his heart about the grief and rage that engulfed black America. He also spoke bluntly to white America, asking his fellow white citizens to take off their blinders and see the true state of race in the nation. Dyson’s essay garnered so many responses that the comment section had to be shut down at 2,500... but not before Beyoncé shared the op-ed on social media and Isabel Wilkerson praised it as an unfiltered Marlboro of black pain that was crushingly powerful.
In Tears We Cannot Stop, Dyson amplifies the themes he first voiced in that influential op-ed that, addressing a nation teetering on the edge of the political abyss and inflamed with raw racial tension. Dyson pulls no punches in telling the truth about the chaos that looms if we don’t address the underlying forces that threaten our nation's moral and political health.
___________________________________________________
Please Note: This event takes place in the Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel Shattuck Plaza at 2086 Allston Way, Berkeley, California 94704.
*Tickets* start at $12.00 and are available NOW at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2738824!
___________________________________________________
What makes Tears We Cannot Stop so compelling is that Dyson digs deep into our racial past while also offering the most up to date investigation of the crises we confront, as well as the opportunities we have to make things better. Dyson offers a unique and empowering blend of historical perspective and contemporary analysis as he probes whiteness in America: how it was invented, how it grieves it's slow but certain erosion, how it takes refuge in notions of innocence and how it has reasserted itself with ominous ferocity as Donald J. Trump takes up residence in the Oval Office.
With the pen of a poet, the heart of a preacher, and the mind of a scholar, Professor Dyson leaves the classroom to tell tales out of school, exposing the heart of blackness and its myriad struggles and obstacles, while also probing the national psyche to deliver a riveting, eloquent, and hard-hitting sermon on the nation's malaise, and our undeniable chances for recovery. Tears We Cannot Stop is Michael Eric Dyson at his finest: he pokes, prods, and challenges us, making us uncomfortable before offering profound and inspiring words to uplift us. In the tradition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, short, emotional, literary, powerful, Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that ALL Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read.
___________________________________________________
Here's a sermon that's as fierce as it is lucid. It shook me up, but in a good way. This is how it works if you're black in America, this is what happens, and this is how it feels. If you're black, you'll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph. If you're white, Dyson tells you what you need to know -- what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said Amen. -- Stephen King
Elegantly written, Tears We Cannot Stop is powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish. -- Toni Morrison
Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison. -- President Barack Obama
A world-class scholar, and the most brilliant interpreter of hip hop culture we have. -- Jay Z
One of our most important black intellectuals limns the lives of black Americans with subtle, lucid rigor. As both an academic and Baptist minister, Dyson winningly combines the roles of prophet and teacher for which Cornel West has gotten such acclaim but to even better effect. -- Kirkus Reviews
In [Dyson's] prose one hears the fervor of a Sunday sermon; in his ideas one sees the analytic scrupulousness of a man who knows a thing or two about tenure committees. -- Time magazine
One of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today. -- Vanity Fair
___________________________________________________
Michael Eric Dyson is one of America’s premier public intellectuals. He occupies the distinguished position of University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, has been an ordained minister for 35 years, is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and is a contributing editor for The New Republic and ESPN’s The Undefeated. Ebony magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans.
More Info Here: http://www.booksmith.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-presents-michael-eric-dyson-tears-we-cannot-stop
RSVP Here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1523898730960807/
Tickets Here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2738824
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