Killers of the Dream - Paperback

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
• | Publication Date: Jul 17, 1994
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0393311600
• | ISBN-13: 9780393311600