Memoir of a race traitor : fighting racism in the american south

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Label

Memoir of a race traitor : fighting racism in the american south

Title remainder

fighting racism in the american south

Statement of responsibility

Mab Segrest

Creator

• Segrest, Mab, 1949-

Author

• Segrest, Mab, 1949-

Subject

• Civil rights movements
• Civil rights movements -- Southern States
• Civil rights workers -- Biography
• Civil rights workers -- North Carolina -- Biography
• Feminism
• Feminism -- Southern States
• Lesbians -- Biography
• North Carolina
• Race relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
• Segrest, Mab, 1949-
• Segrest, Mab, 1949-
• Southern States
• Southern States -- Race relations
• Lesbians -- North Carolina -- Biography
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT

Language

eng

Summary

Back in print after more than a decade, the singular chronicle of life at the forefront of antiracist activism, with a new introduction and afterword by the author "Mab Segrest's book is extraordinary. It is a 'political memoir' but its language is poetic and its tone passionate. I started it with caution and finished it with awe and pleasure." —Howard Zinn In 1994, Mab Segrest first explained how she zhad become a woman haunted by the dead.y Against a backdrop of nine generations of her family’s history, Segrest explored her experiences in the 1980s as a white lesbian organizing against a virulent far-right movement in North Carolina. Memoir of a Race Traitor became a classic text of white antiracist practice. bell hooks called it a zcourageous and daring [example of] the reality that political solidarity, forged in struggle, can exist across differences.y Adrienne Rich wrote that it was za unique document and thoroughly fascinating.y Juxtaposing childhood memories with contemporary events, Segrest described her journey into the heart of her culture, finally veering from its trajectory of violence toward hope and renewal. Now, amid our current national crisis driven by an increasingly apocalyptic white supremacist movement, Segrest returns with an updated edition of her classic book. With a new introduction and afterword that explore what has transpired with the far right since its publication, the book brings us into the age of Trump—and to what can and must be done. Called za true delighty and a zmust-ready (Minnesota Review), Memoir of a Race Traitor is an inspiring and politically potent book. With brand-new power and relevance in 2019, this is a book that far transcends its genre.

Member of

• EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection-North America

Assigning source

publisher's description

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

305.800975

Index

index present

LC call number

F220.A1

LC item number

S38 2019eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography