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| Original Title: | Why I Love Black Women |
| ISBN: | 0465017649 (ISBN13: 9780465017645) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Michael Eric Dyson
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 4.06 | 227 Users | 29 Reviews
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In this open love letter to black women everywhere, Michael Eric Dyson celebrates the strength and beauty of African-American women. From Miss James, his grammar school teacher, to Linda Johnson Rice, who heads the communications empire that publishes Ebony and Jet; from Toni Morrison, whose novels inspired him, as a young welfare dad, to Debbie Bethea, the housecleaner whose labors remind him of his mother in Detroit; from civil rights widow Myrlie Evers-Williams to activist and scholar Angela Davis-and many more-the women in Dyson's pantheon inspire us to remember, "When we love black women, we love ourselves, and the God who made us."
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| Title | : | Why I Love Black Women |
| Author | : | Michael Eric Dyson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | January 8th 2004 by Civitas Books (first published 2003) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Cultural. African American |
Rating Of Books Why I Love Black Women
Ratings: 4.06 From 227 Users | 29 ReviewsNotice Of Books Why I Love Black Women
What made me want to read this book is the celebrity reviews it had gotten (i,e Common , Nas, and Danny Glover) I really enjoyed this book it made me proud to be a black woman but what baffled me is how Michael , wanted the woman to be more powerful than the man and even had women preachers - he claimed to be a christian but when I googled him I found that he WAS A PASTOR THAT WAS FOR HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE , AND SHAMED CHRISTIANS THAT WHERE AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE & GAY RELATIONSHIPS . AND afterHe hit it right on the money! After reading this book I started to retrace all the important milestones of my life. I am amazed at how many women have truly helped shaped my world. Wonderful book! I got a lot of thank you letters to write
What can I say, I got this book because of the title and I was not disappointed. Black women are truly strong, graceful and mistreated, displaced and down trodden. The chapters are broken down into vignettes to serve a purpose for the reader to follow along in the progression of the author as he tells of his experiences with women in his life.
Aside from Dyson overusing the word "Voluptuous" to describe about 70% of the astounding black women featured in the narrative, I found it to be cute. I learned a lot about realms of black life that as a black female i have not yet encountered such as black religious circles and the church. It was refreshing to have a series of stories written by a black male about his appreciation and admiration of black women of all formations, something that we do not see all that often, if at all.
This was the first book that started explaining why black men hated black women i think this was the the first and beginning of that dialogue. We need to continue to talk about what's making black men hate black women. I would like to be a part of that coversation
Michael Eric Dyson is an American academic, author, and radio host. He is a professor of sociology at Georgetown University.
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