N - Harris, James Henry
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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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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.
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).