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To offer a spirited defense of justice, challenge reductive notions of race and class in America, render a critical reading of Nas’s Illmatic, Michael Eric Dyson preaches, teaches, writes, debates, and sometimes even raps. Dyson is an ordained Baptist minister, a distinguished professor, a prolific researcher and writer, a “hip- hop intellectual,” the host of a syndicated radio show, and a frequent contributor on cable news shows.
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Sloan, K. (2013). Michael Eric Dyson. In: Kirylo, J.D. (eds) A Critical Pedagogy of Resistance. Transgressions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-374-4_10
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