Closing out the William C. Powers lecture series, Michael Eric Dyson, distinguished professor, author, cultural critic, social activist and ordained minister, joins the LBJ School's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) to masterfully bring together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits. Entertaining Race is a testament to Dyson’s consistent celebration of the outsized impact of African American culture and politics on this country. Black people have been forced to entertain the idea of race from the start, and must find entertaining ways to make race an object of national conversation. Dyson’s career embodies these and other ways of performing Blackness, ranging from 1991 to the present, he entertains race with his pen, voice and body, and occasionally, alongside luminaries like Cornel West, David Blight and Ibram X. Kendi.