Reading James Henry Harris’s N: My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classic (Fortress Press, 2021) recalls, first, a vibe from Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940), To Bigger and his kind, white people were not really people; they were a sort of great natural force, like a stormy sky looming overhead More

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