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Michael Eric Dyson on the Racial Reckoning That Was 'Long Time Coming'

Michael Eric Dyson on the Racial Reckoning That Was 'Long Time Coming'

We’ll talk to Dyson about the book and why he remains hopeful in the fight for racial and social justice.

KQED's Forum

December 8, 202054m 37s

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Show Notes

In his new book “Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America," sociologist and cultural critic Michael Eric Dyson looks at the history of systemic racism in the U.S. and how it led to this year’s unrest and protests for racial justice. Written as letters to Black victims of systemic racism and police brutality, including Eric Garner and Breonna Taylor, Dyson traces the genealogy of anti-blackness from slavery to the present. We’ll talk to Dyson about the book and why he remains hopeful in the fight for racial and social justice.

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