Killers of the Dream
ISBN-13:
9780393311600
ISBN-10:
0393311600
Edition:
Reissue
Author:
Lillian Smith
Publication date:
1994
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
272 pages
Category:
Social Sciences
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
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ISBN-13:
9780393311600
ISBN-10:
0393311600
Edition:
Reissue
Author:
Lillian Smith
Publication date:
1994
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
272 pages
Category:
Social Sciences
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
Summary
Killers of the Dream (ISBN-13: 9780393311600 and ISBN-10: 0393311600), written by authors
Lillian Smith, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1994.
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A Southern white writer, educator, and activist, Lillian Smith (1897–1966) spoke out all her life against injustice. In Killers of the Dream (1949), her most influential book, she draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological and moral cost of the powerful, contradictory rules about sin, sex, and segregation―the intricate system of taboos―that undergirded Southern society.
"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.
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