| Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa Contributor(s): Mathabane, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0684848287 ISBN-13: 9780684848280 Publisher: Free Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1998 Annotation: Written with courage and conviction, Mark Mathbane's reveals the extraordinary memoir of growing up in a world under apartheid. B&W photo insert. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 98025240 |
| Lexile Measure: 970 |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 5.52" W x 8.3" (0.72 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern Africa - Ethnic Orientation - African - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 7112 Reading Level: 7.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 24.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university. This extraordinary memoir of life under apartheid is a triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable degradation. For Mark Mathabane did what no physically and psychologically battered Kaffir from the rat-infested alleys of Alexandra was supposed to do -- he escaped to tell about it. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mathabane, Mark: - Mark Mathabane is the author of Kaffir Boy in America, Love in Black and White, and African Women: Three Generations. |