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Teryl James

Fiction confronting race, language, identity, social judgment, personal responsibility, and the dangerous distance between how people see themselves and what their choices reveal.

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About the Author

Fiction that refuses easy definitions.

Teryl James writes fiction centered on identity, language, race, social perception, responsibility, and the conflicts that emerge when a person’s self-image collides with the life they have actually built.

The work is interested in uncomfortable distinctions: between judgment and accountability, explanation and excuse, imposed identity and chosen behavior, history and personal responsibility.

The question is not only what the world calls you. It is what you become when you begin answering to the name.

Through satire, social observation, conflict, and morally difficult character choices, Teryl James examines the labels people inherit, reject, weaponize, and ultimately make real through their actions.

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Niggers, Niggas, & Negroes by Teryl James

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