Michael Eric Dyson

America's Original Sin

World Religions

“America’s Original Sin confirms Jim Wallis’s standing as one of America’s foremost prophets and greatest truth tellers. This brilliantly argued, eloquently written, and passionately delivered analysis of the most stubborn feature of our national existence—the yawning chasm of race and the bitter divide of racism—forces us to confront both systemic inequities and individual habits that mock our claim to be the greatest democracy in the world. This book echoes the Old Testament prophet Amos and the American prophet Martin Luther King Jr. in calling for justice and righteousness to cleanse our country from the sin of racism that to this day stains our collective soul.”

My Jams

Arts & Literature

“If William James and Lauryn Hill had a love child, his name would be Anthony Pinn. My Jams brilliantly chronicles varieties of religious experience that intersect with artistic imagination and forms of resistance, recuperation, and restoration found in the bodies of belief, flesh, and music that bridge the human and the divine. This beautiful book is a monumental spiritual and cultural jam session.”

The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr.

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“In The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr. a bracing colloquy of voices combat the conservative hijacking of King's words and ways. Although the authors respond to a single figure's distortion of King's legacy, their searching and provocative insights apply to the broader efforts to turn King's image against the very progressive ideas he spent his life defending. A valiant corrective and call for a more perceptive grappling with King's complicated life and stunning contributions.”

The Student Debt Crisis

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Student debt is a crisis that unites large swaths of the American public across axes of race, class, and gender. Jamal Watson's brilliant book The Student Debt Crisis is both timely and necessary. One of America's leading public intellectuals delivers an analytical history of this pressing issue while offering an impassioned plea for relief of debt that crushes the future of millions of citizens. This compelling and cogent moral argument for national assistance to vulnerable members of our society should be read by all -- but especially by politicians who hold the purse strings and public-policy makers who put their visions into action.”

The Wounds Are the Witness

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“As Howard Thurman preaches in her right ear, as James Baldwin prophesies in her left, as Pauli Murray prays over her, and as Zora Neale Hurston prepares a path before her, Yolanda Pierce shapes a majestic theology of sound and crafts a masterly psychology of voice. The Wounds Are the Witness is where Teilhard de Chardin meets Beyoncé, as Pierce takes the world to church with sacred speech that transforms trauma, heals hurts, rejoices in justice, and celebrates spirit. In this brilliant book, we hear the testimony of arguably the greatest interpreter of religion for the thinking public in our present age.”