Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur

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With a new preface by the author. Ten years after his murder, Tupac Shakur is even more loved, contested, and celebrated than he was in life. His posthumously released albums, poetry, and motion pictures have catapulted him into the upper echelon of American cultural icons. In Holler If You Hear Me, hip-hop intellectual Michael Eric Dyson, acclaimed author of the bestselling Is Bill Cosby Right?, offers a wholly original way of looking at Tupac that will thrill those who already love the artist and enlighten those who want to understand him.

Michael Eric Dyson, named by Ebony as one of the hundred most influential black Americans, is the author of sixteen books, including Holler if You Hear Me, Is Bill Cosby Right? and I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. He is currently University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Dyson at his penetrating best.--Washington Post Dyson plays the role less of biographer or critic than cultural translator, offering thumbnail explanations of tides of black rage, machismo, self-hate, authenticity, and radical activism.--New York Times Dyson writes, trying to canonize Pac for ghetto sainthood. So let he who has ears, hear, and holler.--Vibe Mesmerizing...promises to thrill and surprise even his most avid fans.--Essence