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.
Author: Lillian Smith
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/17/1994
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.58w x 0.68d
ISBN13: 9780393311600
ISBN10: 0393311600
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Travel | United States | South | South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD,
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
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/17/1994
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.58w x 0.68d
ISBN13: 9780393311600
ISBN10: 0393311600
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Travel | United States | South | South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD,