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Download or read book Kaffir Boy written by Mark Mathabane and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Miriam's Song written by Miriam Mathabane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Lessons of Ubuntu by : Mark Mathabane
Download or read book The Lessons of Ubuntu written by Mark Mathabane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 between the races. In his new book, Mathabane tells what each of us can do to become agents for racial healing and justice by learning how to practice the ten principles of Ubuntu, an African philosophy based on the concept of our shared humanity. The book’s chapters on obstacles correlate to chapters on Ubuntu principles: The Teaching of Hatred vs. Empathy Racial Classification vs. Compromise Profiling vs. Learning Mutual Distrust vs. Nonviolence Black Bigotry vs. Change Dehumanization vs. Fogiveness The Church and White Supremacy vs. Restorative Justice Lack of Empathy vs. Love The Myth That Blacks and Whites Are Monolithic vs. Spirituality Self-Segregation: American Apartheid vs. Hope By practicing Ubuntu in our daily lives, we can learn that hatred is not innate, that even racists can change, and that diversity is America’s greatest strength and the key to ensuring our future. Concerned by the violent protests on university campuses and city streets, and the killing of black men by the police, Mathabane challenges both blacks and whites to use the lessons of Ubuntu to overcome the stereotypes and mistaken beliefs that we have about each other so that we can connect as allies in the quest for racial justice.
Book Synopsis Love in Black and White by : Mark Mathabane
Download or read book Love in Black and White written by Mark Mathabane and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book African Women written by Mark Mathabane and published by Perennial. This book was released on 1995-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a dramatic, moving look at three generations of black South African women, a biography of the author's grandmother, mother, and sister reveals overwhelming personal trials and the repercussions of larger events such as colonialism and apartheid. Reprint.
Download or read book The Goats written by Brock Cole and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harmless camp pranks can quickly spiral out of control, but they also provide a perfect opportunity for two social outcasts to overcome and triumph. A boy and a girl are stripped and marooned on a small island for the night. They are the "goats." The kids at camp think it's a great joke, just a harmless old tradition. But the goats don't see it that way. Instead of trying to get back to camp, they decide to call home. But no one can come and get them. So they're on their own, wandering through a small town trying to find clothing, food, and shelter, all while avoiding suspicious adults—especially the police. The boy and the girl find they rather like life on their own. If their parents ever do show up to rescue them, the boy and the girl might be long gone. . . . The Goats is a 1987 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year.
Download or read book Karoo Boy written by Troy Blacklaws and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVTroy Blacklaws’s acclaimed debut novel is the remarkable story of a boy coming of age in the wake of tragedy/divDIV When his twin brother dies in a freak accident, Douglas’s life begins to unravel. His mother leaves his father, taking Douglas with her to live in the Karoo region, a harsh desert landscape that is a far cry from Cape Town and the seaside life Douglas has always known. In this small village that is wary of outsiders, he makes two friends who change his life forever: a beautiful girl named Marika and an old man named Moses. Immersed in rich language and vivid detail, and set against the backdrop of 1970s South Africa, Karoo Boy is the story of a young man finding his way in the midst of chaos and loss./divDIV /div/div
Download or read book Mine Boy written by Peter Abrahams and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mine Boy" tells the story of Xuma, a countryman, in a large South African industrial city, and the impact on him of the new ways and new values." -- back cover
Download or read book Statements written by Athol Fugard and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act.
Book Synopsis A Study Guide for Tadeusz Borowski's "Silence" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A Study Guide for Tadeusz Borowski's "Silence" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Tadeusz Borowski's "Silence", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Book Synopsis Dancing in the Mosque by : Homeira Qaderi
Download or read book Dancing in the Mosque written by Homeira Qaderi and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A People Book of the Week & a Kirkus Best Nonfiction of the Year An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military on edge, it was not uncommon for an armed soldier to point his gun at the pregnant woman’s bulging stomach, terrified that she was hiding a bomb. Frightened and in pain, she was once forced to make her way on foot. Propelled by the love she held for her soon-to-be-born child, Homeira walked through blood and wreckage to reach the hospital doors. But the joy of her beautiful son’s birth was soon overshadowed by other dangers that would threaten her life. No ordinary Afghan woman, Homeira refused to cower under the strictures of a misogynistic social order. Defying the law, she risked her freedom to teach children reading and writing and fought for women’s rights in her theocratic and patriarchal society. Devastating in its power, Dancing in the Mosque is a mother’s searing letter to a son she was forced to leave behind. In telling her story—and that of Afghan women—Homeira challenges you to reconsider the meaning of motherhood, sacrifice, and survival. Her story asks you to consider the lengths you would go to protect yourself, your family, and your dignity.
Download or read book Arthur Ashe written by Raymond Arsenault and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A “thoroughly captivating biography” (The San Francisco Chronicle) of American icon Arthur Ashe—the Jackie Robinson of men’s tennis—a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual. Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943, by the age of eleven, Arthur Ashe was one of the state’s most talented black tennis players. He became the first African American to play for the US Davis Cup team in 1963, and two years later he won the NCAA singles championship. In 1968, he rose to a number one national ranking. Turning professional in 1969, he soon became one of the world’s most successful tennis stars, winning the Australian Open in 1970 and Wimbledon in 1975. After retiring in 1980, he served four years as the US Davis Cup captain and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1985. In this “deep, detailed, thoughtful chronicle” (The New York Times Book Review), Raymond Arsenault chronicles Ashe’s rise to stardom on the court. But much of the book explores his off-court career as a human rights activist, philanthropist, broadcaster, writer, businessman, and celebrity. In the 1970s and 1980s, Ashe gained renown as an advocate for sportsmanship, education, racial equality, and the elimination of apartheid in South Africa. But from 1979 on, he was forced to deal with a serious heart condition that led to multiple surgeries and blood transfusions, one of which left him HIV-positive. After devoting the last ten months of his life to AIDS activism, Ashe died in February 1993 at the age of forty-nine, leaving an inspiring legacy of dignity, integrity, and active citizenship. Based on prodigious research, including more than one hundred interviews, Arthur Ashe puts Ashe in the context of both his time and the long struggle of African-American athletes seeking equal opportunity and respect, and “will serve as the standard work on Ashe for some time” (Library Journal, starred review).
Book Synopsis Call Me Kaffir! by : MR Lesley B Chiloane
Download or read book Call Me Kaffir! written by MR Lesley B Chiloane and published by Lesley Chiloane. This book was released on 2016-12-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book: the conversation continues... "Call Me Kaffir!: A calling many black South Africans still answer to..." is a brave, frank and yet narrative confrontational non-fiction opinion piece cutting across on South African historical politics, current affairs, economic, religious and socio-cultural lifestyle. The author digs deep from his soul and pulls from the gutter, the "dustbin of apartheid" and "colonial effects," on black Africans, in his subtle satirical and unapologetic writing manner, a thorny and controversial racial issue of the all forbidden "Kaffir" name and calling of back people. Through a tricky yet informative and educational narrative, it is designed to confront black South Africans for their ignorant and arrogant ways which the author argues condones and affirms the allege calling. The book describes black South Africans as a people, whom through their own black Political Government have allegedly failed most part of its constituency (themselves), while as an ignorant and arrogant people whom as he puts it, definitely have failed themselves through ignorance and stupid arrogance. A people that continues to cry foul every time they are referred to as 'Kaffir' while they continue to behave exactly like allege 'Kaffirs' at every given opportunity they get, Mr. Chiloane declares. This surely must kick up some storm and controversy. However, Lesley's writing attitude is of a hardcore confrontational nature with a twist of pun and his deliberate neglect to take any prisoners or harbor any sympathy, makes it an interesting read. The book surely lives up to its bold and controversial title, Call Me Kaffir!, which will definitely give it an edge. He asserts that, "When a people abandon and discard their own indigenous cultures and languages to worship and embrace those of the colonial slave-master at the expense of those of their own ancestors and then claim to be free and liberated, that was always going to be a recipe for disaster!" His use of pun and by occasionally mocking the reader succeeds in making the book an entertaining reader affair. By making reference to his previous book, "Compromised Democracy: The Not So Successful Side of our Freedom," while announcing his intension with his next title, "African National Criminals: The Dark Side of Liberators who became Evil People of the Lie," the author is surely cultivating a solid long term and trustworthy relationship with his readers. He has already started writing his next book, "and oh boy, the house is definitely coming down!," he promises... The piece, Call Me Kaffir!, can easily be a useful personal motivational and social educational tool judging from a variety of sources and quotes the author uses to present his deliberate bias opinions, arguments and conclusions. Lesley warns that "History will judge us harshly on our actions and so will our future generations for returning them back to economic slavery! It may have already began to punish and treat us harshly for our ignorance and sins..." The book appeals to all social, political, cultural and current affairs readers and while the author claims to have written the book for black South Africans, he however concedes it will attract both white and international readers as well.
Download or read book The Boy written by Naeem Murr and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the boy? And whose body lies beneath a sheet of blue tarpaulin in the basement of a derelict brewery? The discovery of a chilling diary sends Sean Hennessy, once a foster father to the boy, on a desperate search to unlock the secrets of his tragic past and to learn the truth about the boy’s part in the disintegration of Sean's family. The boy’s charismatic, seductive, and protean personality (he is Devon to the keepers of the Boys’ Home, Alex to the Fatman with whom he lives, Priestly to the young rent-boy who reveres him, and Durwood to Sean’s daughter) arches over this compelling novel and is mirrored in the lives of all the people Sean encounters. From these different perspectives we witness the boy’s many incarnations, which reflect, aggravate, and distort the desires of those around him, involving these characters--and ultimately Sean himself--irrevocably in the boy's mysterious intentions.
Download or read book Black Enterprise written by and published by . This book was released on 1986-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLACK ENTERPRISE is the ultimate source for wealth creation for African American professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Every month, BLACK ENTERPRISE delivers timely, useful information on careers, small business and personal finance.
Book Synopsis The Proud Liberal by : Mark Mathabane
Download or read book The Proud Liberal written by Mark Mathabane and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Proud Liberal, bestselling author Mark Mathabane tackles head-on two of America¿s most current and explosive issues ¿ terrorism and race. Drawing on voluminous research on the confluence of domestic and international terrorism, and on 14 years of closely observing the interplay of politics and race while living in the South, Mathabane weaves a fascinating tale of what happens when a leader abandons his principles in order to win political office. When Lawrence Ramsey decides to run for governor of North Carolina, he has no idea that the fate of his beloved daughter¿s newborn child will become central to the struggle to save America from Bin Laden¿s plan to carry out the worst terrorist act since 9/11. Skillfully blending fact with fiction, The Proud Liberal is replete with unforgettable characters, exotic locations and sudden twists. This tour-de-force political thriller will keep the reader guessing until the very end and will galvanize all those who care about justice, America¿s future, and the world¿s struggle against terrorism.Mark Mathabane came of age in apartheid South Africa and has lived and worked in America since 1978. He is the author of Kaffir Boy, Kaffir Boy in America, Love in Black and White, African Women: Three Generations, and Miriam's Song. He lectures at schools and colleges nationwide on race, education and our common humanity. He and his family live in Portland, Oregon. Learn more at www.mathabane.com.
Book Synopsis Waiting for the Rain by : Sheila Gordon
Download or read book Waiting for the Rain written by Sheila Gordon and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel shows the bonds of friendship under the strain of apartheid as two lifelong friends, Tengo and Frikkie, come of age amidst the tragedy of South Africa.
