social critic

Coates, a renowned writer and social critic, has recently promoted his new book, "The Message," in several intriguing interviews, some contentious.

It is one thing to call Vance a “Trump whisperer” and attempt to utilize his book as an answer for the vote, but it is something else entirely to take him on as a “fiercely astute social critic.”

As social critic Michael Eric Dyson wrote in a 1993 essay for “Cultura Studies,” “Jordan eats Wheaties, drives Chevrolet, wears Hanes, drinks Coca-Cola, consumes McDonald’s, guzzles Gatorade, and of course, wears Nikes. He successfully produced, packaged, marketed, and distributed his image and commodified his symbolic worth, transforming cultural capital into cash, influence, prestige, status, and wealth.”

Like any sharp-eyed social critic, Mr. Rader can also be unsparing.

DuBois, who showed how someone can be a teacher, scholar, researcher, author, social critic and activist.