San Antonio College Library

"In the 1949 classic Killers of the Dream, Lillian Smith described three racial "ghosts" haunting the mind of the white South: the black woman with whom the white man often had sexual relations, the rejected child from a mixed-race coupling, and the black mammy whom the white southern child first loves but then must reject. In this work, Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., extends Smith's analysis by adding a fourth "ghost" lurking in the psyche of the white...