Fortune, Lisa Sharon Harper
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Fortune
How Race Broke My Family and the World—and how to Repair it All

Author: Lisa Sharon Harper, Otis Moss

Narrator: Lisa Sharon Harper

Unabridged: 10 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/08/2022


Synopsis

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 listeners understand how America was built upon systems and structures in ways 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 vision of truth telling, reparation, and forgiveness that leads to Beloved Community.

Author Bio

Lisa Sharon Harper is a prolific speaker, activist, playwright, and the author of several books, including Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican . . . or Democrat and coauthor of Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith. Harper has been recognized by the Huffington Post as one of 50 Powerful Women Religious Leaders and is considered one of the nation's most influential voices on a faith-rooted approach to advocacy. She lives in Washington, DC.

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