Debating Race with Michael Eric Dyson
- ISBN-10
- 0465002064
- ISBN-13
- 9780465002061
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 412
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Author
- Michael Eric Dyson
Description
A collection of the author's previously unpublished intellectual encounters on race with some of today's most influential thinkers and politicians, including Jesse Jackson, Stephen Colbert, Ann Coulter, and Ted Koppel.
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