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Killers of the Dream
Killers of the Dream
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Published to wide controversy, it became the source (acknowledged or unacknowledged) of much of our thinking about race relations and was for many a catalyst for the civil rights movement. It remains the most courageous, insightful, and eloquent critique of the pre-1960s South.
"I began to see racism and its rituals of segregation as a symptom of a grave illness," Smith wrote. "When people think more of their skin color than of their souls, something has happened to them." Today, readers are rediscovering in Smith's writings a forceful analysis of the dynamics of racism, as well as her prophetic understanding of the connections between racial and sexual oppression.
Author: Lillian Smith
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/17/1994
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.58w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780393311600
"I began to see racism and its rituals of segregation as a symptom of a grave illness," Smith wrote. "When people think more of their skin color than of their souls, something has happened to them." Today, readers are rediscovering in Smith's writings a forceful analysis of the dynamics of racism, as well as her prophetic understanding of the connections between racial and sexual oppression.
Author: Lillian Smith
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/17/1994
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.58w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780393311600
