Killers of the Dream - First Edition 1949 - Lillian Smith - Hardcover w/ Dust retailer Jacket [Near Fine]

Killers of the Dream - First Edition 1949 - Lillian Smith - Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket [Near Fine]

"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 retailer 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."

First Edition, First Printing. Published by Norton.

Near Fine condition. Binding tight and inside clean. Dust jacket has some light wear, two very small rips.

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