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

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

Rembert, Winfred
Kelly, Erin I.
Stevenson, Bryan

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralBlack American HistoryAmerican Art - African American & Black

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1635576598
ISBN13: 9781635576597
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: Sep 7 2021
Pages: 304
Weight: 2.47
Height: 1.18 Width: 7.43 Depth: 10.27
Language: English
Awards: ALA Notable Books, Pulitzer Prize

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE

Booklist?#1 Nonfiction Book of the Year * African American Literary Book Club (AALBC) #1 Nonfiction Bestseller * Named a Best Book of the Year by: NPR, ?Publishers Weekly, ?BookPage, Barnes & Noble, Hudson Booksellers, ARTnews, and more * Amazon Editors' Pick * Carnegie Medal of Excellence Longlist

A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear. -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative

Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy's encouragement, he started drawing and painting scenes from his youth using leather tooling skills he learned in prison.

Chasing Me to My Grave presents Rembert's breathtaking body of work alongside his story, as told to Tufts Philosopher Erin I. Kelly. Rembert calls forth vibrant scenes of Black life on Cuthbert, Georgia's Hamilton Avenue, where he first glimpsed the possibility of a life outside the cotton field. As he pays tribute, exuberant and heartfelt, to Cuthbert's Black community and the people, including Patsy, who helped him to find the courage to revisit a traumatic past, Rembert brings to life the promise and the danger of Civil Rights protest, the brutalities of incarceration, his search for his mother's love, and the epic bond he found with Patsy.

Vivid, confrontational, revelatory, and complex, Chasing Me to My Grave is a searing memoir in prose and painted leather that celebrates Black life and summons readers to confront painful and urgent realities at the heart of American history and society.

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