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A review by thelucyjones
Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest
4.0
The rereleased edition of this book (2019) includes three parts: Mab Segrest’s memoir, a series of essays titled “On Being White and Other Lies,” and the transcript of a keynote speech delivered in 1993 at a National Gay and Lesbian Task Force conference in Durham.
I appreciated the second two parts of this book about as much as the memoir itself, and found the ideas and writing just as, if not more, compelling. Mab’s story and life, activist and personal, were interesting to me as a white woman living in North Carolina. While I appreciated the depth of detail about her organizing days in the 80s against white supremacist groups in NC, I was also at times bogged down by the details. I’m glad to know the stories and events that she relayed here, but I think I expected the personal reflection to outweigh the fact and detail, which it did not. Despite that, I have a lot of respect for Mab Segrest, and am glad I picked up this book!
I appreciated the second two parts of this book about as much as the memoir itself, and found the ideas and writing just as, if not more, compelling. Mab’s story and life, activist and personal, were interesting to me as a white woman living in North Carolina. While I appreciated the depth of detail about her organizing days in the 80s against white supremacist groups in NC, I was also at times bogged down by the details. I’m glad to know the stories and events that she relayed here, but I think I expected the personal reflection to outweigh the fact and detail, which it did not. Despite that, I have a lot of respect for Mab Segrest, and am glad I picked up this book!