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Scalawag: A White Southerner's Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism. By Edward H. Peeples, with Nancy MacLean. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2014. Pp. [xxii], 218. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-3539-3.) Edward H. Peeples's compelling autobiography traces the story of his life from his coincidentally shared birthday with Adolf Hitler to his unrelenting fight against the many degradations of human life in American society in the late twentieth century. The book begins by opening a window on the process of socializing whiteness in children by parents in the 1930s throughout the South, as Peeples...