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

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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 epithet more than two hundred times in the text.

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 this book, Harris challenges his instructor and classmates and inspires listeners 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 listener into this important conversation.

© 2021 Christian Audio (Lydbog): 9781545920718

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Lydbog: 14. december 2021

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