| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-297). |
| Summary |
During the worst years of official racism in South Africa, the story of one young girl came to symbolize the injustice, corruption, and arbitrary nature of apartheid. Born in 1955 to a pro-apartheid white couple, Sandra Laing was officially registered and raised as a white child. But at a school for whites, she was mercilessly persecuted because of her dark skin and frizzy hair. Her parents attributed her appearance to an interracial union far back in family history. Their neighbors, however, thought Mrs. Laing had committed adultery with a black man. The family was shunned. When Sandra was ten, she was reclassified as "coloured." As a teenager, she eloped with a black man, her parents disowned her, and having known only the privileged world of the whites, she chose to begin again in a poor, all-black township, where life was a desperate struggle against a legal system designed to enslave. |
| Subject |
Laing, Sandra, 1955-
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Laing, Sandra, 1955- -- Family.
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Colored people (South Africa) -- Biography.
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Women -- South Africa -- Biography.
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South Africa -- Biography.
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Colored people (South Africa) -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
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Apartheid -- South Africa -- Case studies.
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Racism -- South Africa -- Case studies.
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South Africa -- Race relations -- Case studies.
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| ISBN |
0786868988 alkaline paper |
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9780786868988 alkaline paper |
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9781401309374 |
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1401309372 |
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