The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
Written by Michael Eric Dyson
Narrated by Michael Eric Dyson
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
Michael Eric Dyson
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON—Distinguished University Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, College of Arts & Science, and of Ethics and Society, Divinity School, and NEH Centennial Chair at Vanderbilt University—is one of America’s premier public intellectuals and the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers including Tears We Cannot Stop, What Truth Sounds Like, JAY-Z, and Long Time Coming. A winner of the 2018 nonfiction Southern Book Prize, Dr. Dyson is also a recipient of two NAACP Image awards and the 2020 Langston Hughes Festival Medallion. Former president Barack Obama has noted: “Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison.”
More audiobooks from Michael Eric Dyson
JAY-Z: Made in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dancing in the Darkness: Spiritual Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dear Emmett Till: An Excerpt from Long Time Coming Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Black Presidency
Related audiobooks
Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brown is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Obama: The Ascent of a Politician Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pelosi Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare 20th Anniversary Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Best Worst President: What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Black Power and the American Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBarack Obama: The 60 Minutes Interviews: Introduced with new commentary by Steve Kroft Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dear Emmett Till: An Excerpt from Long Time Coming Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We're Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Vanishing Country: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
United States History For You
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51776 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Charlie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wright Brothers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Letter from Birmingham Jail Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lafayette in the Somewhat United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untold History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Up From Slavery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Black Presidency
11 ratings1 review
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good book, not sure I agree with everything, but still a good book,