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Title: Why I Love Black Women by Michael Eric Dyson ISBN: 0-465-01763-0 Publisher: BasicCivitas Books Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: In Salute of the Black Woman
Comment: Michael Eric Dyson tells us why he loves black women by featuring several prominent and not so prominent African-American females in Why I Love Black Women. He begins with tributes to an elementary teacher, his mother and aunts. He continues with tributes to women he comes into contact with as his educational and religious careers expand. His descriptions of their physical attributes and intellectual brilliance are intense, vivid and classic Michael Dyson. It may be too descriptive for some but it is vintage Michael Dyson. His spoken word definitely shines through his written word.
With each women highlighted, Mr. Dyson showcases their brilliance with reflections and quotes of his meetings. Many social issues are explored and while we all may not agree with the politics, Mr. Dyson has portrayed women who can back up their claims and go toe-to-toe with the best of the male species.
As an African-American female, this is a feel good testament to African-American women by a prominent African-American male; a read that is thought provoking; one that would illicit excellent discussions among book clubs because of the social commentary and one that I recommend to both women and men alike.
Reviewed by Dawn R. Reeves
APOOO BookClub
Rating: 3
Summary: One man's dissertational view of women of color
Comment: When I think of the contribution that black women have contributed to the makeup of this country, and their role in society in general, I as a responsive father, son, and husband can certainly give homage to why they are so important to our existence. As I've read other references on this subject it only reminded me that others may share some of the reverence I hold, and have opinions of their own. Eric Michael Dyson is one such person. Always opinionated bordering on controversial, his views somehow find ways to permeate the African-American social Diaspora. Why I love Black Women is his latest offering to commentary that he has given us throughout his annals in the academy. Dyson, married and an ordained minister, is the Avalon Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, once again shoots from the hip taking no prisoners as he candidly and vociferously opines about the virtues of the women that hold reverence in his mind. This is a book that will undoubtedly garner mixed emotions from some of the things that are articulated by the author. Albeit, his expressing his love for sisters in a way which is up front and personal. While he does devote some worthwhile space to his mother, the bulk of the book focuses on what seems to be his compulsive attraction to the rich and famous....and it may well be this fixation that may cause the average black woman to take issue with this show of "preference".
My problem with the text is that the author's appreciative gestures are to the point of distraction. As a result, one may perhaps tend to find other vestiges of value to justify continuing with the read. It's okay to fawn and express feelings for those that you admire on the level that you gravitate, but having such a lofty view should not neglect those that are women nonetheless and would ascend the same positions if they were so inclined. What's the big deal over this Ivy-League professor getting all worked up, not over everyday people, but over academics, lawyers, congresswomen, celebrities and business executives. Comments range on the rich and famous from Freda Payne to Star Jones.
I can't help but think too, that if I extol all that I love about African-American women, it would be imperative that I not neglect to include in generic reference all that may fall within my periphery in lieu of exalted personage. In sum, though Michael Eric Dyson's heart and mind might have been in the right place with good intent, his excessive if not thinly disguised parlance for lust got in the way of his emotion in this book superficial proportions.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic!
Comment: This book was outstanding. Finally, a sensitive and thoughtful black man pays public tribute to the pain and beauty of black womanhood. In a society that is bent at all costs to defemenise and destroy black women and to see her as less then lovely and portrays her in a negative light, Dyson honors our pain and beauty. I wish that more people not just black men and women could understand the painful hole this society has dumped black women in. And, to the narrow small minded pinhead man, who wrote the no thanks review, (see above) he obviously hates black women and is insensitive to their pain and suffering. His comments deserve NO attention at all and perhaps he could use his time more wizely flipping through the cable channel and watching the O'Riley Factor. Please read this book, if you want to understand more black women.
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Title: Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture and Religion by Michael Eric Dyson ISBN: 0465017657 Publisher: BasicCivitas Books Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Race Rules : Navigating the Color Line by Michael Dyson ISBN: 0679781560 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Race Matters by Cornel West ISBN: 0679749861 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Empowerment Cards by Tavis Smiley ISBN: 1401901271 Publisher: Hay House Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X by Michael Eric Dyson ISBN: 0195102851 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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