The best-selling book that sparked a national debate about the class divide in black America

Michael Eric Dyson took America by storm with this provocative exposŽ of the class and generational divide that is tearing black America apart.

"A fascinating journey through black thought, American history and the psyche of an uptight, easily embarrassed, tittering black aristocracy.... Dyson does a brilliant job dissecting and demolishing Cosby's rhetoric."(Newsweek)

"Dyson is best when he vaults from particular Cosby comments into a wide-ranging review of current scholarship on black social issues.... Dyson effectively damns Cosby with his own words.... After this fight, Cosby needs a good cut man." (New York Times Book Review)

"Michael Eric Dyson is an ace rhetorician.... Far from despairing or keeping silent about black issues that feel to many of us like existential riddles, Dyson savors them. He eats them for lunch." (Los Angeles Times)