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Memoir of a Race Traitor

Mab Segrest

Pages: 274
ISBN: 0-89608-475-2
Format: cloth
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Description of Memoir of a Race Traitor.

Against a backdrop of nine generations of her family's history, Mab Segrest explores her experience as a white lesbian organizing against a virulent Far Right movement in North Carolina.

“Courageous and daring, this work testifies/documents the reality that political solidarity, forged in struggle, can exist across difference.”—bell hooks

“Mab Segrest's book is extraordinary. It has enormous political power even while it tells the intimate, poignant story of a white southern girl as she discovers her lesbianism, becomes a radical activist against the murderous Klan and deals with her family's deep conservatism in ways that instruct all of us. It is a 'political memoir' but its language is poetic and its tone passionate. I started it with caution and finished it with awe and pleasure.”—Howard Zinn

“A true delight.… Segrest courageously takes on the task of self-examination … a must-read for those thinking critically about whiteness.”—Minnesota Review