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INTERVIEW WITH SOCIOLOGIST MICHAEL ERIC DYSON

Race Is a 'Tough Tightrope for Obama'

In a SPIEGEL interview, sociologist and Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson explains why Barack Obama can't be emotional, his similarities with Martin Luther King, black self-hatred and the shades of black success. more...

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