2025 Book Fest
The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism

Sunday, 1/12/25 @ 3 pm

From the former heir-apparent to white nationalism, The Klansman’s Son is an astonishing memoir of a childhood built on fear, of breaking from a community of hate. Derek Black recently transitioned to Adrianne since the publication of this book. Her/their father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke, was their close family friend and mentor. Racist hatred was all Derek/Adrianne knew. This memoir is a thoughtful, insightful, moving account with important lessons for our troubled times. Derek/Adrianne traces her/their uniquely insider account of the rise of white nationalism, and how a child indoctrinated with hate can become an anti-racist and non-binary-gender adult. Few understand the ideology, motivations, or tactics of the white nationalist movement like Derek/Adrianne, and even fewer have ever made so profound a change.