Killers of the dream
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Killers of the dream
（A Norton paperback）
W.W. Norton, 1994
[1994 ed.]
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
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"First published as a Norton paperback 1978; reissued 1994"--T.p. verso
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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.
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