num_pages: 272
description: 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.
language: English
title: Killers of the Dream
titlecomplete: Killers of the Dream
genres: Social Justice, Essays, History, Race, American History, School, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Womens
ratings_count: 513
awards: awardedAt: -631123200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company