Michael Eric Dyson
American academic and ordained minister / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) is an American academic, author, ordained minister, and radio host. He is a professor in the College of Arts and Science and in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University.[3] Described by Michael A. Fletcher as "a Princeton Ph.D. and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two",[4] Dyson has authored or edited more than twenty books dealing with subjects such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Marvin Gaye, Barack Obama, Nas's debut album Illmatic, Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur and Hurricane Katrina.
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Born | (1958-10-23) October 23, 1958 (age 65) |
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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[2] |
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Discipline | Sociology |
Institutions | Vanderbilt University |
Website | michaelericdyson |
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