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Fortune: How Race Broke My Family- And the World and How to Repair It All - Hardcover

Harper, Lisa Sharon

 
9781587435270: Fortune: How Race Broke My Family- And the World and How to Repair It All
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1587435276 ISBN 13: 9781587435270
Verlag: Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group, 2022

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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.

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Lisa Sharon Harper (LSMA, Columbia University; MFA, University of Southern California) is the founder of Freedom Road, a consulting group dedicated to shrinking the narrative gap. A sought-after speaker, trainer, and consultant with more than 100,000 social media followers, Harper has written several books, including the critically acclaimed The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, Relevant, Essence, HuffPost, the National Civic Review, and CNN, and she has appeared on PBS's Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, TV One, Fox News, NPR, and Al Jazeera America. Harper previously served as chief church engagement officer at Sojourners, where she mobilized the church to engage campaigns on immigration reform and racial justice. She has researched her family's origins for three decades and presented on her ancestors' achievements at the African American Civil War Museum. Harper lives in the same Philadelphia neighborhood where three generations of her ancestors lived.

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"An epic and true story of race, religion, history, and identity"

Leading Christian activist Lisa Sharon Harper has spent three decades exploring ten generations of her family history through DNA research, oral histories, interviews, and genealogy. Drawing on that experience, Fortune recovers the beauty of her heritage, exposes the brokenness that race has wrought in America, and casts a vision for collective repair.

"Nothing less than an epic and true story of race, religion, history, and identity."
--Jemar Tisby, New York Times bestselling author of The Color of Compromise and How to Fight Racism

"Harper is one of our nation's most critical voices on the issues of race, gender, faith, and justice."
--Kirsten Powers, New York Times bestselling author, CNN senior political analyst, and USA Today columnist

"Brilliant."
--Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president, Repairers of the Breach; author of We Are Called to Be a Movement

"Harper is a masterful storyteller."
--Ruby Sales, founder of the Spirithouse Project, long distance runner for justice, social critic, popular educator, and Black folk theologian

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Verlag
Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1587435276
ISBN 13 
9781587435270
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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