Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South Audiobook (Free)
- Brenda Currin
- 11 h 5 min
- Dreamscape Media, LLC
- 2019-11-11
Summary:
In 1994, Mab Segrest 1st explained how she “had become a woman haunted with the useless.” Against a backdrop of nine generations of her family’s history, Segrest explored her experiences in the 1980s as a white lesbian organizing against a virulent far-right motion in NEW YORK. Memoir of a Competition Traitor became a classic text of white antiracist practice. bell hooks known as it a “courageous and daring [example of] the truth that political solidarity, forged in struggle, can exist across distinctions.” Adrienne Rich wrote that it was “a unique document and completely interesting.” Juxtaposing child years memories with modern events, Segrest referred to her journey into the heart of her lifestyle, finally veering from its trajectory of assault toward hope and renewal. Today, amid our current national crisis, powered by an increasingly apocalyptic white supremacist movement, Segrest profits with an up to date model of her classic book. With a fresh introduction and afterword that explores what offers transpired with the far best since its publication, the book brings us into the age group of Trump-and from what can and must be completed.