Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
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In the wake of George Floyd’s killing and the nationwide uprising it ignited, this book asks what America has been avoiding—and what it will take to finally reckon with race. Through five sharply argued chapters addressed to Black martyrs, it traces the long genealogy of anti-Blackness from slavery’s afterlives to the present-day street-level realities of policing, power, and inequality. With the urgency of a cultural critic and the clarity of a preacher-scholar, Michael Eric Dyson connects personal grief to national history, showing how systemic racism is sustained, justified, and resisted. Ultimately, the book is both a diagnosis and a call to action: a demand for truth, accountability, and a credible path toward social redemption.
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hardcover
St. Martin's Press
Published Dec 1, 2020
240 pages
ISBN: 9781250276759
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First Published
2020
Language
eng
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