Killers of the Dream

Title: Killers of the Dream
Author: Lillian Smith
F: 1702936
ISBN: 9780393311600
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1994
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reissue
Number of Pages: 272
Section: Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
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Publisher Description: 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.