Against a backdrop of nine generations of her family’s history, Segrest explored her experiences in the s as a white lesbian organizing against a virulent far-right movement in North Carolina. Memoir of a Race Traitor became a classic text of white antiracist www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. In , Segrest is back with a reissue of her classic anti-racist text Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South and an epic new volume, Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry from Georgia’s Milledgeville Asylum. This in-depth asylum study is already being hailed as a landmark of scholarship, a “profoundly great book,” and a “gripping” and . · First published in , this memoir tells the highly topical story of how Segrest (Emeritus, Gender and Women’s Studies/Connecticut Coll.; Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit and Justice, , etc.) developed intersectional feminist consciousness and struggled against far-right extremism in North Carolina. As a member of a conservative Alabama family, the author began Author: Mab Segrest.
When reading Mab Segrest's Memoirs of a Race Traitor, an autobiography show more content This evidence will make the ways in which Mab Segrest blurs the lines of being an ally to people of a certain identity with actually having that identity for oneself. Memoir of a Race Traitor became a classic text of white antiracist practice. bell hooks called it a "courageous and daring [example of] the reality that political solidarity, forged in struggle, can exist across differences." Adrienne Rich wrote that it was "a unique document and thoroughly fascinating." "Mab Segrest's book is extraordinary. Mab Segrest was born in in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up in Tuskegee where her family on both sides had lived for over a century. Steeped in its white version of southern history, she grew up into the crucible of the civil rights movement. In more ways than one, this movement arrived at her door and kept on knocking.
Memoir of a Race Traitor Mabelle Massey Segrest, known as Mab Segrest (born Febru), is an American lesbian feminist and anti-racist writer, scholar and activist. Segrest is best known for her autobiographical work Memoir of a Race Traitor, which won the Editor's Choice Lambda Literary Award. MEMOIR OF A RACE TRAITOR FIGHTING RACISM IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH by Mab Segrest ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 24, A reprint of the author’s account of her work as a white lesbian “thinking race, feeling race, acting against racism” in the American South. Memoir of a Race Traitor is a lyrically written brutally honest book which is part memoir, part playbook strategy for her fight against racism and homophobia written by Mab Segrest. Originally published in , this reformat and re-release, out 24th Sept by The New Press, is pages and available in paperback and ebook formats (other editions available in other formats).
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