A Conversation with Mab Segrest

Author of Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South

Mab Segrest is Fuller-Maathai Professor Emeriti of Gender and Women’s Studies at Connecticut College and a 2017-18 Fellow at the National Humanities Institute. She is a long-time activist in issues of social justice. Her 1994 classic, Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South is being reissued by The New Press, and a new book, Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Hospital, will be out from The New Press in February 2020. Segrest will read from and chat about both books.

Reservations are required for this free evening event, as a part of our 2019 Evening with The Forest programming. To inquire about availability and to make a reservation, please email rsvp@forestduke.org or call 919-433-2385. Space is limited, so please register by October 12.