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Dr. Michael Eric Dyson is the author of Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip Hop; Debating Race; Come Hell or High Water; Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?; The Michael Eric Dyson Reader; Open Mike; Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur; Why I Love Black Women; I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.; Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line; Between God and Gangsta Rap; Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X; and Reflecting Black. He is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia.