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Fortune : How Race Broke My Family and the World--And How to Repair It All by Lisa Sharon Harper (2022, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBrazos Press
ISBN-101587435276
ISBN-139781587435270
eBay Product ID (ePID)17050404992
Product Key Features
Book TitleFortune : How Race Broke My Family and the World--And How to Repair It All
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
TopicInspirational, Christianity / Denominations, Christian Life / Social Issues
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion
AuthorLisa Sharon Harper
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight16.4 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-033221
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal277.3083092
Table Of ContentContents Family TreeForeword by Otis Moss III Acknowledgments of CountryPrologueIntroduction Part One: The Roots 1. Fortune: How Race Became Law2. The Lawrences: Fragmented Identity3. Lea: Slavery and Oblivion Part Two: Degradation and Resistance 4. Lizzie: Like Dust5. Reinaldo y Anita: Bomba6. Sharon: Rebellion7. Lisa: Light Part Three: Repair 8. Truth-Telling as Reckoning9. Reparation as Repentance10. Forgiveness and the Beloved CommunityIndex
SynopsisA Word & Way 2022 Book of the Year Sojourners' 2022 Book Roundup to Inspire Faith and Justice"Extraordinary. . . . Let this story of family, race, and resistance create anger in your spirit and ultimately inspire your heart to join the work to heal our nation and eventually our world."--Otis Moss III (from the foreword) Drawing on her lifelong journey to know her family's history, leading Christian activist Lisa Sharon Harper recovers the beauty of her heritage, exposes the brokenness that race has wrought in America, and casts a vision for collective repair.Harper has spent three decades researching ten generations of her family history through DNA research, oral histories, interviews, and genealogy. Fortune, the name of Harper's first nonindigenous ancestor born on American soil, bore the brunt of the nation's first race, gender, and citizenship laws. As Harper traces her family's story through succeeding generations, she shows how American ideas, customs, and laws robbed her ancestors--and the ancestors of so many others--of their humanity and flourishing. Fortune helps readers understand how America was built upon systems and structures that blessed some and cursed others, allowing Americans of European descent to benefit from the colonization, genocide, enslavement, rape, and exploitation of people of color. As Harper lights a path through national and religious history, she clarifies exactly how and when the world broke and shows the way to redemption for us all. The book culminates with a powerful and compelling vision of truth telling, reparation, and forgiveness that leads to Beloved Community. It includes a foreword by Otis Moss III, illustrations, and a glossy eight-page black-and-white insert featuring photos of Harper's family., Drawing on her lifelong journey to know her family's history, a leading Christian activist recovers the beauty of her heritage, exposes the brokenness that race has wrought in America, and casts a vision for collective repair.
LC Classification NumberBX4827.H326A3 2022
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