Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson | |
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| Born | October 23, 1958 |
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| Ordained | c. 1977 |
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| Thesis | Uses of Heroes: Celebration and Criticism in the Interpretation of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. (1993) |
| Influences | Manning Marable |
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| Discipline | Sociology |
| Institutions | Vanderbilt University |
| Website | michaelericdyson |
Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) is an American academic, author, Baptist minister, and radio host. He is a professor in the College of Arts and Science and in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. Described by Michael A. Fletcher as "a Princeton Ph.D. and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two", Dyson has authored or edited more than twenty books dealing with subjects such as race, religion and politics as well as biographies on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Marvin Gaye, Barack Obama, Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur and Jay-Z.