Michael Eric Dyson

Author, teacher and speaker Michael Eric Dyson published Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip Hop in 2007. Dyson is currently writing and curating a collection of essays about rapper Nas' 1990s hip-hop album Illmatic.Pitchfork Media: Michael Eric Dyson to Edit Book on Nas' Illmatic

Michael Eric Dyson began his career in academics. He has held several teaching positions in such prestigious universities as DePaul and Brown. He has been a commentator on race, the effect of hip-hop music on children, and inner race relations. In 2006 Dyson hosted his own talk radio show on the Radio One network. His radio show ended in February 2007 and Dyson returned to academia. He currently teaches at Georgetown University.

• 1996: Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line
• 2000: I May Not Get There With You
• 2002: Holler if You Hear Me
• 2002: The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
• 2005: Is Bill Cosby Right?
• 2006: Come Hell Or High Water
• 2007: Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip Hop

• DePaul University
• Chicago Theological Seminary
• University of North Carolina
• Brown University
• Georgetown University

• Note: Many of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• October 23, 1958: Born

• 1999: Fists of Freedom: The Story of the ’68 Summer Games

• 2000: Dyson vs McClain, testified at Senate Committe on Violence, Hip-Hop & Kids

• 2000: When It Was a Game 3

• 2001: Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake

• 2002: Michael Eric Dyson Named to Faculty at Penn

• 2004: NAACP Image Award for Why I Love Black Women

• 2005: Black in the 80's

• 2005: Ego Trip’s Race-O-Rama

• 2005: The John H. Johnson Story

• 2006-07: Hosted radio show The Michael Eric Dyson Show

• 2006: NAACP Image Award for Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?

• 2006: Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

• 2006: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

• 2006: Waist Deep

• 2007: Michael Eric Dyson Joins Staff at Georgetown University

• 2007: Testifies before the Congressional Hearins on Hip Hop

• 2008: New Orleans Story

• 1993: Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism

• 1995: Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X

• 1996: Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture

• 1997: Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line

• 2001: I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr

• 2001: Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur

• 2002: Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture and Religion

• 2004: Why I Love Black Women

• 2004: The Michael Eric Dyson Reader

• 2004: Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?

• 2005: Mercy, Mercy Me: the Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye

• 2006: Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins

• 2006: Come Hell Or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster

• 2006: Soberbia

• 2007: Debating Race with Michael Eric Dyson

• 2007: Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip Hop

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