{"product_id":"killers-of-the-dream","title":"Killers of the Dream","description":"A Southern white writer, educator, and activist, Lillian Smith (1897–1966) spoke out all her life against injustice. In Killers of the Dream (1949), her most influential book, she draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological and moral cost of the powerful, contradictory rules about sin, sex, and segregation―the intricate system of taboos―that undergirded Southern society.\nPublished 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.\n\n\"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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0393311600\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0393311600.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Smith, Lillian\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41500039348282,"sku":"DBV.0393311600.G","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0393311600-0.jpg?v=1783051626","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/killers-of-the-dream","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}