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Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America

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2017

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Title:	Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America
Author:	Dyson, Michael Eric, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Description:	228 pages ; 20 cm
Summary:	Fifty years ago Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong. Now he responds to that question. If society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths, including being honest about how Black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
Subjects:	Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Racism -- United States -- History -- 21st century. Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 21st century. Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. United States -- Race relations -- 20th century. United States -- Race relations -- 21st century.
Contents:	Call to worship -- Hymns of praise -- Invocation -- Scripture reading -- Sermon. (Repenting of whiteness. Inventing whiteness ; The five stages of white grief ; The plague of white innocence -- Being black in America. Nigger ; Our own worst enemy? ; Coptopia) -- Benediction -- Offering plate -- Prelude to service -- Closing prayer.
ISBN	1250135990

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