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Cover of Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

by Winfred Rembert & Erin I. Kelly

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
First published
2021
Length
≈ 304 pages
Reading time
8–11 hours
ISBN
1635576601

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What is this book about?

This memoir follows the artist Winfred Rembert’s experience of racism as a young African-American in the 1950s and 1960s. After imprisonment and an attempted lynching in the 1960s, he turned to painting and leather carving as a way to express himself. Rembert told his life story to Erin I.

Kelly, a philosophy professor, and the book reproduces his art. It was published after his death in March 2021.

Source: Chasing Me to My Grave

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