My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding

{{Infobox book

| name = My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding

| image = File:My Awakening.jpg

| caption = US first edition cover

| author = David Duke

| published = 1998

| language = English

| media_type = Print

| country = United States

| publisher = Free Speech Press

| isbn = 9781892796004

}}

My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding is a 1998 autobiography{{cite web |work=The New York Times |title=David Duke Heads North to Raise Money for House Race |last=Janofsky |first=Michael |date=January 3, 1999 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/03/us/david-duke-heads-north-to-raise-money-for-house-race.html}} written by David Duke.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-13-op-45995-story.html |title=Politically Out of Favor, David Duke Still Casts a Shadow |date=June 13, 1999 |work=Los Angeles Times |first=Jason |last=Berry }} Duke's social philosophies are outlined, including the reasoning behind his advocacy of racial segregation.

Duke said in 1999 that Louisiana Republican governor Mike Foster's money had essentially financed My Awakening after Duke told a grand jury that during the 1995 Louisiana governor's race Foster had secretly bought Duke's list of contributors and supporters.{{cite web |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/22/us/a-dealing-with-david-duke-haunts-louisiana-governor.html |title=A Dealing With David Duke Haunts Louisiana Governor |first=David |last=Firestone |date=June 22, 1999}}

Glayde Whitney, a Florida State University psychology professor, wrote the foreword to the book, calling Duke a "seeker of truth."{{cite web |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-11-me-passings11-story.html |title=Glayde Whitney, 62; Author of Controversial Theory on Race, Genes |date=January 11, 2002}}