This collection gathers the best of Dyson's vast and growing body of work from the last several years: his most incisive commentary the most stirring passages, and the sharpest, most probing and broadminded critical analyses.

Michael Eric Dyson has been named by Ebony as one of the one hundred most influential black Americans and is the author of fourteen other books. He is University Professor at Georgetown University and lives in Washington, D.C.