Killers of the Dream (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393311600)

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
ISBN-10: 0393311600
ISBN-13: 9780393311600
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 07/17/1994
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.58w x 0.68d