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Michael Eric Dyson's Reading List

"It's done so much damage in fashioning savage notions of Africa," says the author of "Jay-Z: Made in America" and many other books.

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By the Book: Michael Eric Dyson (2020)

NYT By the Book column (2020-06-04).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Thelonious Monk
Robin D. G. Kelley · Buy on Amazon
"the biography of a musical genius written by a certified polymath. Kelley is a world-famous historian who reads and writes across several disciplines."
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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin · 1963 · Buy on Amazon
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Kindred
Octavia E. Butler · 1979 · Buy on Amazon
"I'd strike Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"... and replace it with, say, Octavia Butler's "Kindred.""
The Fragility of Goodness
Martha C. Nussbaum · Buy on Amazon
"I know Nussbaum is highly regarded, but if she were a man, she'd take her rightful place as one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers in the last half-century."
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Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · 1977 · Buy on Amazon
"Milkman Dead from Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon." I tucked that book beneath my arm as my pregnant ex-wife and I were evicted on Christmas Day in 1977 in Detroit."
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin · Buy on Amazon

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