Lester

Lester, Neal A.

<div class="ExternalClass2D843320B14E4286ACCC69CFF3D37526"><h2>Meet local author Neal A. Lester.</h2><h3>Genre: Non-Fiction / Social Justice<br></h3><h3>Title: <em>Social Justice in Action: Models for Campus and Community</em></h3><p></p><p><span data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US">Neal A. Lester, PhD, is Foundation Professor of English and Founding Director of the multiple award-winning Project Humanities initiative at Arizona State University. With expertise in African American literature and culture, Dr. Lester has authored or edited eight books and myriad essays and chapters on topics ranging from the race and gender politics of hair, violence against Black children, rethinking Empathy, Black masculinities, neo-slave narratives, and African American folklore, to Toni Morrison’s children’s books. In addition to his publications on ntozake shange, Alice Walker, Beyonce, Lorraine Hansberry, Richard Wright, Sapphire, and Zora Neale Hurston, Dr. Lester has done pioneering work on the Nword, having created and taught the first college course on the Nword in the US.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p><p><span data-ccp-props="{}"></span><br></p></div>

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