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Debating Race: with Michael Eric Dyson

A collection of the author's previously unpublished intellectual encounters on race with some of today's most influential thinkers and politicians, including Jesse Jackson, Stephen Colbert, Ann Coulter, and Ted Koppel.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 432 pages

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