Apartheid: Calibrations of Color (Icarus World Issues Series)

ISBN 10: 0823913309 ISBN 13: 9780823913305

Publisher: Rosen Pub Group, 1991

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Essays, fiction, and photographs address different aspects of apartheid

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Grade 9-12-- A collection of writings and photographs by South Africans who share "a vision of a nonracial future." Selections include such different genres and points of view as a satirical play by a white South African; a black photographer's pictures of rural tenant laborers; a long piece from a historical novel about the life of a slave; the description by a black (presumably American) of anti-apartheid demonstrations at Columbia University in New York; the account of a Durban trade union theater center; and the story of a woman searching for her dead son in Scotland. While some of the selections are moving and immediate, it is not always clear which are fiction and which are factual personal accounts. The sequence of the readings is puzzling, with the final one providing simple information on apartheid that would have made earlier ones more understandable. Some entries have helpful footnotes for unfamiliar terms; others have such terms unexplained. The books listed in the bibliography vary in quality as well as difficulty. These current artists' voices can add depth for those who already know a good deal about South Africa. For others, the consistent voice of one of the many fine South African writers is likely to bring more understanding of apartheid. --Loretta Kreider Andrews, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore
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