Fortune - How Race Broke My Family and the World--and How to Repair It All av Lisa Sharon Harper, Otis III Moss

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<b>A </b><b><i>Word & Way </i></b><b>2022 Book of the Year<br/></b><b><i>Sojourners'' </i></b><b>2022 Book Roundup to Inspire Faith and Justice<br/><br/>"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)<br/></b><br/>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.<br/><br/>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 he