Copyright © 2003 by Michael Eric Dyson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dyson, Michael Eric.
   Open mike : reflections on philosophy, race, sex, culture and religion / Michael Eric Dyson.
      p. cm.
   Includes bibliography references and index.
   ISBN 0-465-01765-7 (alk. paper)
   eBook ISBN: 9780786724024
1. African Americans—Race identity. 2. United States—Race relations. 3. African Americans—Intellectual life. 4. African American philosophy. 5. African Americans—Social conditions—1975- . 6. African Americans in popular culture. 7. Dyson, Michael Eric—Interviews. 8. African American intellectuals—Interviews. I. Title. II. Title.
E185.625.D97 2002
305.896'073—dc21

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