Killers Of The Dream

• Author(s): Lillian Smith,
• Publisher: WW Norton
• Pages: 253
• ISBN_10: 0393311600
  ISBN_13: 9780393311600
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Fiction / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Archaeology , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

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.