Jujitsu for Christ

Name: Jujitsu for Christ
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ISBN: 9781617037382

ISBN-10: 1617037389

ISBN-13: 9781617037382

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jack Butler, Brannon Costello

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Jack Butler'sJujitsu for Christ--originally published in 1986--follows the adventures of Roger Wing, a white born-again Christian and karate instructor who opens a martial arts studio in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, during the tensest years of the Civil Rights era. Ambivalent about his religion and his region, he befriends the Gandys, an African-American family--parents A.L. and Snower Mae, teenaged son T.J., daughter Eleanor Roosevelt, and youngest son Marcus--who has moved to Jackson from the Delta in hopes of greater opportunity for their children.As the political heat rises, Roger and the Gandys find their lives intersecting in unexpected ways. Their often-hilarious interactions are…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publication date: 1/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Brannon Costello, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is associate professor of English at Louisiana State University and is the editor ofHoward Chaykin: Conversations(University Press of Mississippi).