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“One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in the tradition of Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and King's Why We Can't Wait." ―The New York Times Book Review

Toni Morrison hails Tears We Cannot Stop as "Elegantly written and powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish."

Stephen King says: "Here’s a sermon that’s as fierce as it is lucid…If you’re black, you’ll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph. If you’re white, Dyson tells you what you need to know―what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said amen."

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"The time is at hand for reckoning with the past, recognizing the truth of the present, and moving together to redeem the nation for our future. If we don't act now, if you don't address race immediately, there very well may be no future."

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Michael Eric Dyson

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

Beloved, the deed has been done. We have—since that 'we' must contain, by virtue of our system of government, if not the will, then at least the implied consent, of even the people who opposed with all their souls the choice you made—elected Donald J. Trump as president of the United States of America. Please take measure of every phrase in that sentence.

Whether he wishes to be or not, Donald Trump is the epitome, not only of white innocence and white privilege, but of white power, white rage, and yes, even of white supremacy.

The greatly stepped-up harassment of people of color, and Muslims, and immigrants in the wake of Trump’s election points to the sea change in our naked tolerance for such assaults, in the permission granted to diabolical forces that rob us even more of comity and support of the commonweal.

Donald Trump harms our nation’s positive racial future.

Yet, beloved, there remains, after all, the blackness that is prophecy, the blackness that is inexplicable hope in the face of savage hopelessness.

Beloved, if the enslaved could nurture, on the vine of their desperate deficiency of democracy, the spiritual and moral fruit that fed our civilization, then surely we can name and resist demagoguery; we can protest, and somehow defeat, the forces that threaten the soul of our nation. To not try, to give up on the possibility that we can make a difference, can make the difference, is to give up on our past, on our complicated, difficult, but victorious past. Donald Trump is not our final, or ultimate, problem. The problem is, instead, allowing hopelessness to steal our joyful triumph before we work hard enough to achieve it.

—Michael Eric Dyson.

December 2016.

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"Anguish and hurt throb in every word of Michael Eric Dyson's Tears We Cannot Stop...It is eloquent, righteous, and inspired...Often lyrical, Tears is not...without indignation...brilliance and rectitude." ―The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Dyson...creates a sermon unlike any we've heard or read, and it's right on time...an unapologetically bold plea for America to own up to its inexplicable identity anxiety." ―
Essence

"[Dyson's] narrative voice carries a deeper and more intimate authority, as it grows from his own experience as a black man in America ― from being beaten by his father to being profiled by the police to dealing with his brother's long-term incarceration...Dyson's raw honesty and self-revelation enables him to confront his white audience and reach out to them." ―
The Chicago Tribune

"Be ready to pause nearly every other sentence, absorb what is said, and prepare for action.
Tears We Cannot Stop is meant to change your thinking." ―The Miami Times

"[
Tears We Cannot Stop] talks directly to you, about issues deep, disturbing, and urgently in need of being faced." ―Philly.com

“One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in the tradition of Baldwin's
The Fire Next Time and King's Why We Can't Wait. ―The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

"Impassioned." ―
Library Journal

"Readers will find searing moments in
Tears We Cannot Stop, when Dyson's words proves unforgettable...But more than education, Dyson wants a reckoning." ―The Washington Post

“Dyson lays bare our conscience, then offers redemption through our potential change.” ―
Booklist

"If you read Michael Eric Dyson’s
New York Times op-ed piece "Death in Black and White," then you know what a powerful work of cultural analysis his book, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America is going to be. At a time when everyone needs to speak more openly, honestly, and critically about the racial divisions that have been allowed to grow in the United States, Dyson’s book ― available in January ― could not be a more welcome read." ―Bustle

"A hard-hitting sermon on the racial divide... The readership Dyson addresses may not fully be convinced, but it can hardly remain unmoved." ―
Kirkus Reviews (Starred)

"Elegantly written,
Tears We Cannot Stop is powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish." ―Toni Morrison

"Here’s a sermon that’s as fierce as it is lucid. It shook me up, but in a good way. This is how it works if you’re black in America, this is what happens, and this is how it feels. If you’re black, you’ll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph. If you’re white, Dyson tells you what you need to know―what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said amen." ―Stephen King

"Michael Eric Dyson is alive to the fierce urgency of now and yet he's full of felicitous contradictions: an intellectual who won't talk down to anyone; a man of God who eschews piousness; a truth-teller who is not afraid of doubt or nuance; a fighter whose arguments, though always to the point, are never ad hominem. We can and should be thankful we have a writer like Michael Eric Dyson is our midst." ―Dave Eggers, from the preface of
Can You Hear Me Now?

About the Author

MICHAEL ERIC DYSON―Distinguished University Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, College of Arts & Science, and of Ethics and Society, Divinity School, and NEH Centennial Chair at Vanderbilt University―is one of America’s premier public intellectuals and the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers including Tears We Cannot Stop, What Truth Sounds Like, JAY-Z, and Long Time Coming. A winner of the 2018 nonfiction Southern Book Prize, Dr. Dyson is also a recipient of two NAACP Image awards and the 2020 Langston Hughes Festival Medallion. Former president Barack Obama has noted: “Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison.”

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Press; 1st edition (January 17, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250135990
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250135995
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.42 x 0.95 x 7.78 inches
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Michael Eric Dyson is an award winning author, a widely celebrated Georgetown University professor, a prominent public intellectual and a noted political analyst. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he is also an ordained Baptist minister. Dyson is a two-time NAACP Image Award winner (Why I Love Black Women, and Is Bill Cosby Right?), and the winner of the American Book Award for Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. His book The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America was a Kirkus Prize finalist. Dyson has written 19 books, and edited another one, over his nearly 25-year publishing career. He is also a highly sought after public speaker who is known to excite both secular and sacred audiences. Follow him on Twitter @michaeledyson and on his official Facebook page (facebook.com/michaelericdyson)

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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2017
    Timely, provocative, brilliant, painful, and, ultimately, a very necessary step toward authentic national healing and transformation. As a white, long-time fellow traveler, I am so grateful that Dr. Dyson has answered his calling to lead us toward redemptive justice with truth, decency and love--albeit, at times, necessary tough love. I am in my third read already and learning more and more each time.

    Dyson's sermon serves as an exceptional read for believer and non-believer alike as it offers a framework and lexicon for us to engage with one another as we work our way through ongoing racially turbulent and polarized times. I am not a critic by trade so I will leave the professional analysis to the experts. I am a K-12 educator and seeker of social justice. I found this work both accessible and challenging in the best of ways. In my daily work, the evidence of the invention of whiteness, white innocence and white fragility and their pernicious impacts are ubiquitously abundant such that Dyson’s claims simply cannot be denied.

    Dyson’s sermon is not always a comfortable read. That’s the point. It is a workout for the soul and psyche that results in the growing pains necessary for personal and collective liberation.

    Thank you, Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, for opening your head and heart so broadly and deeply there is room enough for all of us in this racial healing process. The writing of this book is the ultimate act of truth and forgiveness. You have entrusted us with your most profound insights, personal experiences, and extend a vulnerability that humbles and arrests me. As you shared in a recent interview, "your trust in us grows out of forgiveness and the demand for truth for which is stands on, and the love it seeks to extend". Amen! I am in!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2017
    This is a book that I challenge all my white friends to read, no matter where you stand on the spectrum of confronting white privilege and systemic racism. Michael Eric Dyson delivers a powerful, engaging, personal, informational, inspiring sermon that’s essential at this moment in time when racial division is especially high.

    I urge you to read with an open heart and mind, to set aside your discomfort and listen to Dyson’s plea for white Americans to reckon with the harsh truths of racism.

    Dyson is an ordained minister, so what better way to present this than as a sermon. He divides it into multiple sections: in “Hymns of Praise,” he cleverly shares hymns in the form of rap lyrics; in “Scripture Reading,” he quotes Martin Luther King Jr.; in the main sermon, he addresses whiteness specifically (including white innocence, white fragility, and white privilege) and then segues into a section about what it’s like to be black in America. Following that is “Benediction,” one of my favorite parts: in it he offers practical suggestions for what white people can do to make things better.

    The whole thing is incredibly current and topical, with commentary on Black Lives Matter, the recent election and Donald Trump’s rise to power.

    For white people who seek to understand more about racism and white privilege in America (and really, that should be all of us), this is the book to read. It was literally written for us.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2017
    It should come as little surprise that Dyson's book has in so many reviews become a magnet of scorn for fragile and easily-wounded whites who take great offense to everything from the titles of other works in Dyson's bibliography to the decision to address this book to white America as a collective to having the temerity to suggest that whiteness is anything but absolved of historical wrongdoing. The existence of this same sort of fragility -- one that breaks at the mere suggestion of white innocence being conducive to fostering racist ideology or at the acknowledgement of existing institutional structures that continue to harm black Americans with impunity -- is, after all, at the very heart of the work's message. Of course, the input of these reviews can and should be dismissed indiscriminately.

    "Tears We Cannot Stop" can be read in one sitting, and it is resonant and magnetizing for the duration. Dyson's choice to format the book as a sermon is one that might put off some readers, but I found it to be charming and effective at pulling passion from the pages. And there is so much passion to be had; Dyson's prose is electric, whether he is regaling the reader with personal anecdotes or current events or positing to his beloved reader the things they can do to combat racism.

    In deeply troubling times, "Tears We Cannot Stop" is church for the believer and non-believer alike, simultaneously crushing and uplifting and thoroughly uncompromising.
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  • Rollo 1967
    5.0 out of 5 stars L'America nera spiegata ai bianchi
    Reviewed in Italy on May 3, 2024
    Dyson è un autore che sa perfettamente usare la maestria per comunicare concetti chiave, spesso delicati, dal punto di vista "nero" verso un pubblico "bianco". Una delle voci più autorevoli per conoscere il punto di vista "dall'altra parte" dell'America e smontare le costruzioni posticce che ce ne danno una prospettiva falsata o nel migliore dei casi distorta.
  • Sheilina
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must read... stop, read, learn, apply...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 17, 2021
    A seminal book full of insights, observations and emotional experiences. Rarely does a book move me so much that I find I have to slowly read and absorb each phrase, each paragraph. A compelling read.
  • Geoff
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Book To Challenge Yourself
    Reviewed in Canada on March 22, 2019
    This is a book to challenge you. It went from 1 star in the beginning to earning 5 stars at the end based on the amount of thinking, analyzing and introspection he forces one to consider while reading this sermon.

    I picked up this book as I have a lot of respect for Dr. Dyson after seeing some of his interviews and his debate with Jordan Peterson. He is most definitely a very intelligent, well read and quick-witted individual. I wanted to read something to give me an intelligent outlook on White America from a Black American perspective and this book did not disappoint.

    While reading this I took notes, writing at times lengthy analysis on where I felt he is either right or wrong regarding a specific subject and my own personal opinion of his reasoning and/or viewpoint mixed with facts to back up my conclusions. I will not write about that in this review because this is not the place for that.

    To summarize, he provides a sermon to White America about what it has done to Black America and what White America can do to heal the damage done. Along the way you may not agree with a lot of what he says. You may also be surprised at some insights he provides that you may not have considered, and you will also agree with a number of points he makes. Personally, I found him bias in much of his analysis, but you'll find out why that is.

    Challenge yourself along the way over everything he says, and you will come away the better. At the end he provides a great reading list and list of individuals to follow on social media for further understanding.

    Very highly recommended! Five plus stars.
  • tserofin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading for white people
    Reviewed in Canada on September 22, 2022
    Extremely well written by an eminent scholar. Not preachy just full of hard truths. If this book doesn't change your mind about the prevalence of racism in America, nothing will.
  • Pegs
    5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 13, 2020
    I really enjoyed this book. It was telling some hard truths, but in a compassionate manner. It impacted me more I think because I read it in the last couple of months where issues of social justice have been more prominent internationally. So much learning here for those who want to take a participatory approach in investing themselves in issues of social justice.