Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

Title	Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Author	Michael Eric Dyson
Call Number	Leatherby On Order
Location	Other
Rating	Highly Recommended
Book Review	This book invites white America to evolve. From the NY Times: "Dyson is all too familiar with the claims of innocence and the kneejerk defensiveness that will surely greet this book, and yet he sets out to conquer such denial not only with the difficult truth but also, astonishingly, with love. 'Beloved,' he writes, in the voice of one ministering to the sick, 'your white innocence is a burden to you, a burden to the nation, a burden to our progress. It is time to let it go, to let it die in the place of the black bodies it wills into nonbeing.'" (see nytimes.com/2017/01/12/books/review/tears-we-cannot-stop-michael-eric-dyson.html) Run, do not walk, to devour this book--by far the most important words I read all summer, and a text I will continue to reference and live by for the rest of my days.
Submitted By	Erin Rivero
Department or Major	Leatherby Libraries
Status	Staff
Chapman Email	erivero@chapman.edu