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The classic story of life in apartheid South Africa
Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education,
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"The nation-state and the colonial state have always been the same thing: the ethnic and religious majorities of the former created only through the violent "minoritization" inherent in the latter. Assessing cases from the United States to Eastern Europe, Israel, and Sudan, Mahmood Mamdani suggests a radical solution: the state without a nation"--
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Rowman & Littlefield International
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"In this important new book, leading Black philosopher Mabogo More reflects on his life and career in apartheid South African. The book explores Africana existentialism in relation to issues of race, identity, liberation, freedom, alienation, responsibility and bad faith and includes key essays from More's corpus alongside his philosophical memoir.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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A wide-ranging collection of essays addressing the work of contemporary international women playwrights, this book foregrounds the diversity and power of women's playwriting since 1990, highlighting key voices, analyzing a wide range of works, and exploring crucial critical and theoretical developments within the field.
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Alyson Books
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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Does Homosexuality Remain the Greatest Taboo in Black Culture? Is Homosexuality a European Cultural Imposition on Africans? Are You Black First or Queer? Delroy Constantine-Simms has compiled 28 powerful, provocative essays from academics and writers of all ethnic heritages, genders, and sexualities, including bell hooks, Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Seth Clark Silberman, Gregory Conerly, and Gloria Wekker, to explore the often volatile relationship black...
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2013.
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English
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An extraordinary novel of love, friendship, and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat
Eleanor Morse’s rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable, is an absorbing and deeply moving story.
In apartheid South Africa in 1977, medical student Isaac Muthethe is forced to flee his country after witnessing a friend murdered by white members...
Eleanor Morse’s rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable, is an absorbing and deeply moving story.
In apartheid South Africa in 1977, medical student Isaac Muthethe is forced to flee his country after witnessing a friend murdered by white members...
15) My son's story
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English
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A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of a cinema with a woman.
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A small-town murder leads to international intrigue in this “first-class thriller” from the New York Times–bestselling master of Scandinavian crime (The New York Times Book Review).
Inspector Kurt Wallander returns in the second of Henning Mankell’s award-winning, internationally-bestselling detective novels, this time to investigate the execution-style killing of a Swedish housewife....
Inspector Kurt Wallander returns in the second of Henning Mankell’s award-winning, internationally-bestselling detective novels, this time to investigate the execution-style killing of a Swedish housewife....
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