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

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

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY Booklist #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year * African...
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Rembert, Winfred

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

$61.00
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Rembert, Winfred

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

$61.00
Author: Winfred Rembert
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY

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 in Nonfiction 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.

Author: Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 09/07/2021
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.47lbs
Size: 10.27h x 7.43w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9781635576597


Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/24/2021
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2021
Booklist 07/01/2021 pg. 11
Library Journal 11/01/2021 pg. 101

About the Author

Winfred Rembert (1945 - 2021) was an artist from Cuthbert, Georgia. His paintings on carved and tooled leather have been exhibited at museums and galleries across the country, and compared to the work of Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, and Horace Pippin. Rembert was honored by the Equal Justice Initiative in 2015, awarded a United States Artists Barr Fellowship in 2016, and is the subject of two award-winning documentary films: All Me and Ashes to Ashes. In the last decades of his life, he lived and worked in New Haven, Connecticut.

Erin I. Kelly is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. She lives in Massachusetts.
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