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My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classic
Published on 26. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
181 pages
978-1-5064-7916-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
261 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5064-7916-3 (9781506479163)
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10/2021
Fortress Press
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Person
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).