To understand this country, we need to know the American South from the perspective of those who, like Margaret Walker, like Mab Segrest, have lived real lives there all along.” In 2020, Segrest is back with a reissue of her classic anti-racist text Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South and an epic new volume, Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry from Georgia’s Milledgeville Asylum. But her essays speak to the whispers in my bones, and they both remind and instruct me. In 1984, the poet Adrienne Rich wrote about Mab Segrest’s first book My Mama’s Dead Squirrel, proclaiming, “Mab Segrest is of a younger generation than I, another kind of family.
The arc of Mab Segrest’s work spans forty years and profound cultural shifts, the resolution of which still hangs in perilous balance.
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