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