The award-winning debut by the acclaimed author of Cold New World . Named by The New York Times Book Review as a top ten nonfiction book of 1986, this seminal piece of cross-cultural journalism is an account of a white American's experience teaching black students in South Africaan account essential for its incisive coverage of the student anti-apartheid movement, as well as for the unpretentious charms of its prose.
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The award-winning debut by the acclaimed author of Cold New World . Named by The New York Times Book Review as a top ten nonfiction book of 1986, this seminal piece of cross-cultural journalism is an account of a white American's experience teaching black students in South Africaan account essential for its incisive coverage of the student anti-apartheid movement, as well as for the unpretentious charms of its prose.
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The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Good. No Jacket as Issued. CB5-A tight, clean, sound copy in yellow, black, and purple vinyl covered boards with the usual library marks and stamps on the inside surface of the front board, top and bottom outside paper edges, and title page plus the residue of a library label on the front endpaper plus some yellowing of the paper edges. A book about life under apartheid. It is about a year inside a so-called colored high shcool in South Africa. Indexed, 418p.
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Good, good. 24 cm, 418, illus., some wear and soiling to DJ, edges soiled, some edge wear. A Californian who went to live among the blacks in South Africa and discovered the daily nightmare of life under apartheid.
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Good in good jacket. 24 cm, 418 pages, illus., Name written on front flyleaf, edges soiled. William Finnegan (born 1952) is a staff writer at The New Yorker and well-known author of works of international journalism. He has specially addressed issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is well known for his writing on surfing. In 1986, he was sent to Johannesburg, where he followed black reporters who gathered information for white reporters during Apartheid. This led to the 1988 publication of Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters. A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique, published in 1992, grew out of a series of correspondences about the war-torn nation for the magazine, and Finnegan's own travels throughout that war-torn nation. Named by The New York Times Book Review as a top ten nonfiction book of 1986, this seminal piece of cross-cultural journalism is an account of a white American's experience teaching black students in South Africa-an account essential for its incisive coverage of the student anti-apartheid movement, as well as for the unpretentious charms of its prose. An illuminating, engaging account of the year (1980) the 27-year-old American author spent teaching at a "coloured" high school near Cape Town. Once in South Africa he is brought up quickly by what he calls the "morbid novelties of apartheid, " and his descriptions bring day-to-day life in South Africa alive as few other contemporary works of reportage on the country have done. At Grassy Park High School, Finnegan tries to break away from the repressive syllabus and promotes career and school counseling. But he learns that he has underestimated the poison of the system. Indeed, only half of any class may graduate to the next class. During the year, there is a two-month student boycott, allowing Finnegan to see many students' and teachers' true political beliefs, which are often at odds with his own liberal, colorblind, cheerful, damn-the-system approach. Finnegan seems to become worn down, to the point of harshly questioning himself. The book is remarkable for its sense of place, descriptions of the countryside, and most of all for making vivid the people who live in South Africa--casually racist Boers; uncomfortably racist Englishmen; "coloureds, " whom the whites wish to co-opt. A vivid, stunning, saddening eyewitness report.