Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities) sports and the political

and the political

mobilizing black communities and white supporters across the country--but relentlessly targeted by the police and the FBI

Kwame Ajamu

Paperback : 302 pages

Yrsa Daley-Ward

Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities) sports and the politicalOf the seven deadly sins, pride is the only one with a virtuous side. It is certainly a good thing to have pride in one's country, in one's community, in oneself. But when taken too far, as Michael Eric Dyson shows in Pride, these virtues become deadly sins. Dyson, named by Ebony magazine as one of the 100 most influential African Americans, here looks at the many dimensions of pride. Ranging from Augustine and Aquinas, MacIntyre and Hauerwas, to