"Content warning: please be advised that in describing historical and recent events, various chapters contain graphic details of violence, lynching, killing, executions, rape, infanticide, police brutality, and torture."--Page viii.
Alessandra Harris earned her degree in comparative religious and Middle Eastern studies from San Jose State University and began her writing career with an online magazine for the African American Community in the San Francisco Bay area. Harris is a co-founder and former contributor to Black Catholic Messenger. Essayist, analyst, commentator, religion writer, and novelist, her work has also appeared in America, Critical Theology Journal, The Catholic Worker, National Catholic Reporter, and US Catholic.
