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Mab Segrest

Mab Segrest is a writer, teacher, and organizer living in North Carolina. Her most recent book is "Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry." The New Press released a new edition of her 1994 book "Memoirs of a Race Traitor" in 2019.

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The old devil and the new details

by Mab Segrest March 29, 2021April 29, 2021

Mab Segrest, veteran organizer and author of 'Memoir of a Race Traitor,' offers a long-view on right-wing militia organizing in the South and January's Capitol Insurrection.

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'Go There Ready for War'—Militia Organizing in North Carolina in the Context of the Insurrection at the US Capitol

by Mab Segrest March 29, 2021April 7, 2021

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