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Skwiza
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Skwiza

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-01-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Official Study Guide to Kaffir Boy is the only study guide with approval and input from the author, Mark Mathabane. It contains 34 photos and can be used as a study aid, similar to Cliff Notes.

Love in Black and White
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Love in Black and White

The dramatic, revealing, and riveting story of how Mark and Gail Mathabane overcame their own prejudices, society's disapproval, family opposition, and personal self-doubts to be together in an interracial relationship. 16 pages of photos.

Kaffir Boy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

Kaffir Boy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Free Press

A Black writer describes his childhood in South Africa under apartheid and recounts how Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith helped him leave for America on a tennis scholarship

Miriam's Song
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Miriam's Song

Mark Mathabane first came to prominence with the publication of Kaffir Boy, which became a New York Times bestseller. His story of growing up in South Africa was one of the most riveting accounts of life under apartheid. Mathabane's newest book, Miriam's Song, is the story of Mark's sister, who was left behind in South Africa. It is the gripping tale of a woman -- representative of an entire generation -- who came of age amid the violence and rebellion of the 1980s and finally saw the destruction of apartheid and the birth of a new, democratic South Africa. Mathabane writes in Miriam's voice based on stories she told him, but he has re-created her unforgettable experience as only someone who also lived through it could. The immediacy of the hardships that brother and sister endured -- from daily school beatings to overwhelming poverty -- is balanced by the beauty of their childhood observations and the true affection that they have for each other.

The New Colored People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 233

The New Colored People

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-08
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Most Americans remain oblivious of a new racial phenomenon that may radically alter the political landscape of the United States. In recent years, dramatic increases in racial intermarriage have given birth to a generation of mixed-race children whose interracially married parents refuse to allow them to be shoehorned into neat, pre-existing racial categories. The parents, through organizations they have founded or joined, have lobbied aggressively for the category "multiracial" to be added to official racial classifications at the state and federal levels, including the United States census. Since a nonracial society is one of the stated goals of the multiracialists, Spencer suggests that the undoing of racial classification will come not by initiating a new classification - which will only give Americans the impression that mixed-race people can be neatly classified - but by our increased recognition that there are millions of people who simply defy classification.

Africa and the West
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Africa and the West

Besides her natural beauty, the scenery and the climate, and her abundant wildlife and natural resources, Africa is probably best known as the homeland of hundreds of millions of people who live in abject poverty. Millions are wracked by disease and blinded by ignorance. And just as many go hungry every day. But there is something else which also distinguishes Africa: lack of unity among her people. That is one of the main reasons why they were conquered by foreigners, and why Africa is still weak and poor today. There is no other continent which is endowed with so much in terms of natural resources. But there is also no other continent where it has been so easy for foreigners to take what does not belong to them. This book began as a self-examination of the African personality in an attempt to understand Africa's place in the world, especially in relation to the West.

The End of Racism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 764

The End of Racism

The first conprehensive inquiry into the history, nature and ultimate meaning of racism.

African Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

African Women

The bestselling author of Kaffir Boy offers the profoundly dramatic, ppersonal stories of his mother, grandmother, and sister and the desperate and dire circumstances under which they raised their families in the face of apartheid. Photos.

The Lessons of Ubuntu
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

The Lessons of Ubuntu

A roadmap to healing America’s wounds, bridging the racial divide, and diminishing our anger. Mathabane touched the hearts of millions of people around the world with his powerful memoir, Kaffir Boy, about growing up under apartheid in South Africa and was praised by Oprah Winfrey and Bill Clinton. In his new book, The Lessons of Ubuntu: How an African Philosophy Can Inspire Racial Healing in America, Mathabane draws on his experiences with racism and racial healing in both Africa and America, where he has lived for the past thirty-seven years, to provide a timely and provocative approach to the search for solutions to America’s biggest and most intractable social problem: the divide bet...

In the Name of Hate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

In the Name of Hate

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-05-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In The Name of Hate is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of hate crimes, arguing for an expansion of the legal definitions that most states in the U.S. hold. Barbara Perry provides an historical understanding of hate crimes and provocatively argues that hate crimes are not an aberration of current society, but rather a by-product of a society still grappling with inequality, difference, fear, and hate.