Making Malcolm

Making Malcolm by Eric Dyson

Twenty years after his assassination, what is it about Malcolm X's life and words that speaks so powerfully to so many? In Making Malcolm, Michael Eric Dyson probes the myths and meanings of Malcolm X for our time. From Spike Lee's film biography to Eugene Wolfenstein's psychobiographical study, from hip-hop culture to gender and racial politics, Dyson cuts a critical swathe through both the idolization and the vicious caricatures that have undermined appreciation of Malcolm's greatest accomplishments. A rare and important book, Making Malcolm casts new light not only on the life and career of a seminal black leader, but on the aspirations and passions of the growing numbers who have seized on his life for insight and inspiration.

Dyson shows us a Malcolm X for our time* The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson *

Michael Eric Dyson is an ordained Baptist minister and Professor of Communications Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of the widely acclaimed Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, andRolling Stone.

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ISBN 13	9780195102857
ISBN 10	0195102851
Title	Making Malcolm
Author	Eric Dyson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	1996-04-25
Number of pages	256
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