| Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa Contributor(s): Mathabane, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812456033 ISBN-13: 9780812456035 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $28.90 Product Type: Prebound - 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 |
| Lexile Measure: 1040 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.90 lbs) 354 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. |