Fortune

<p><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 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.<br/><br/><i>Fortune</i> helps readers understand how America was built upon systems and structures 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 powerful and compelling vision of truth telling reparation and forgiveness that leads to Beloved Community. It includes a foreword by Otis Moss III illustrations and a glossy eight-page black-and-white insert featuring photos of Harper's family.</p>