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- Book Title
- N: My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an America
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9781506479163
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Religion, Social Science
- Publication Name
- N: My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classi : My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classic
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publisher
- 1517 Media
- Subject
- Discrimination & Race Relations, American / General, Christian Life / Social Issues
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 11.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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This book is about a Black man's experience of reading Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time while in graduate school. The story captures the author's emotional struggle with Twain's use of the racial epithetmore than two hundred times in the text. Author James Henry Harris reports being relieved to come to the end of the semester of "encountering Twain's use of [the forbidden word] every week. . . . I was teetering on the brink of falling apart. . . . For the first time the class seemed to understand my painful struggle, and my plight as a Black man in class was a metaphor, a symbol of the past, present, and postmodern condition of American society." This is a courageous memoir that wrestles with the historic stain of racism and the ongoing impact of racist language in postmodern society. The book is about Harris's flashbacks, conversations, and dilemmas spawned by use of the epithet in a classroom setting where the author was the only Black person. His diary-like reflections reveal his skill as a keen reader of culture and literature. In these pages, Harris challenges his instructor and classmates and inspires readers to redress the long history of American racism and white supremacy bound up with the N-word. He reflects on how current Black artists and others use the word in a different way with the intention of empowering or claiming the term. But Harris is not convinced that even this usage does not further feed the word's racist roots. Healing racial division begins with understanding the deep impact our words can have to tear down or to heal. This book invites the reader into this important conversation.
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Publisher
1517 Media
ISBN-10
1506479162
ISBN-13
9781506479163
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6057279625
Product Key Features
Publication Name
N: My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classi : My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classic
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Discrimination & Race Relations, American / General, Christian Life / Social Issues
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Religion, Social Science
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2022-279789
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Ps169.R28h37 2021
Reviews
"James Henry Harris--reverend, thinker, professor, public intellectual, and social activist--has confronted one of the most fraught topics in American history and illuminated it with visceral power. An enthralling, moving, and emotional journey of encounter, suffering, and victory." --William C. McDonald, professor, University of Virginia "This is an elegant, heartfelt rumination on America's crucible of race. Engaging, beautifully crafted, and analytically powerful. By blending the narrative voice of a memoirist and the sharp insights of a true scholar, Harris achieves a remarkable literary triumph." --Tim Wise, author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son "James Henry Harris offers an outstanding analysis of the pain and degradation caused by using the n- word. His compelling story will stir your emotions, challenge your thinking, and keep you reading." --Jacqueline Madison-McCreary, pastor, First Baptist Church of New Market, Piscataway, New Jersey "Harris's courageous memoir confronts the long debate over Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finnand its use of the N-word. Marshaling critics from Hegel to bell hooks, and calling on a family history of resistance, Harris challenges his instructor and classmates, and in turn inspires his readers, to redress the long history of American racism and white supremacy bound up with the epithet." --Mark A. Sanders, University of Notre Dame "James Henry Harris masterfully takes the reader on an experiential journey with an American classic as both analysis and memoir. N: My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classicarticulates the gravitas and visceral effects of the singular word in the English language, a word that still holds America in the grips of its nebulous struggle to traverse its path of liberty and justice for all. As Harris speaks from the heart, the reader will be forever transformed by his impassioned words." --Lisa Baldwin-Wilson, DMin student, Samuel De Witt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University "Incendiary in the cleanliness of its outrage, N by James Henry Harris gives the real-life account of a Black man blindsided by the most insufferable word in the American lexicon, and his attempt to symbolize the ensuing trauma of being ambushed by it in the halls of academia. In this pursuit, Harris offers a winning critique of race and place, with the grace of an aging scholar trying to make sense of the forbidden word." --Tony Baugh, author of Groan in the Throat Vol. 1: "White Supremacy Is a Religion" and Other Essays on Being Black, Keeping the Faith, and Surviving America
Dewey Decimal
810.93552
Dewey Edition
23
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