James Henry Harris

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My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classic

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Black man's experience of reading Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time, this book captures the author's struggle with Twain's use of the racial epithet more than two hundred times in the text. Harris inspires readers to redress the long history of American racism and white supremacy bound up with the N word.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: 1517 Media
• Seitenzahl: 181
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781506479163
• ISBN-10: 1506479162
• Artikelnr.: 61658915

Autorenporträt

James Henry Harris is Distinguished Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology and a research scholar in religion and humanities at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University. He also serves as chair of the theology faculty and pastor of Second Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia. He is a former president of the Academy of Homiletics and recipient of the Henry Luce Fellowship in Theology. He is the author of numerous books, including Beyond the Tyranny of the Text and Black Suffering: Silent Pain, Hidden Hope (Fortress Press, 2020).