Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Michael Eric Dyson
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Michael Eric Dyson
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
...draws both its impassioned style and its moral urgency from his years in the pulpit.
To root the book in his own life and tradition, Dyson structures it as a worship service, dividing chapters into 'Hymns of Praise,' 'Invocation,' 'Benediction' and 'Sermon,' the latter of which constitutes more than half of the text. At first this seems a bit contrived, since these components don't function the same way in print as they do in person in a worshipping community. But the format also allows Dyson, a celebrated academic and news analyst, to reclaim his identity as an ordained Baptist minister. So his narrative voice carries a deeper and more intimate authority.
...thoughtful yet angry, mingling insight, righteousness and harshness.