Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert *****

Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2022. It is an “as told to” autobiography of growing up in Jim Crow Georgia. The author saw and experienced the horrors of prejudice, discrimination, and white supremacy. “The great evil of American slavery [was] the insidious construct of white supremacy.” After being beaten, lynched, and jailed, he found success as an artist documenting the events of his youth. His autobiography recounts his unlikely story. “They probably get behind my back and say, ‘Ah, shit. That ain’t never happened.’” A document of the man and an era that isn’t over yet.

Three autobiographies of prejudice and abuse show the horror of organized hatred and the possibility for an individual to overcome it.

Holocaust in Germany: Nightby by Elie Wiesel

Apartheid in South Africa: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

White Supremacy in the United States: ChasingMe to My Grave by Winfred Rembert

All three books tell the story of unimaginable abuse from the perspective of someone who has survived. This distance and the knowledge that the author survived allows the reader to learn the history without experiencing the trauma. Hopefully, these books serve as inoculations-mild experiences that prevent more serious repetitions of the disease.

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