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Miriam's Song

A Memoir

By: Miriam Mathabane,Mark Mathabane

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Miriam's Song

A Memoir

By: Miriam Mathabane,Mark Mathabane

Mark Mathabane first came to prominence with the publication of Kaffir Boy, which became a New York Times bestseller. His story of growing up in South Africa was one of the most riveting accounts of life under apartheid. Mathabane's newest book, Miriam's Song, is the story of Mark's sister, who was left behind in South Africa. It is the gripping tale of a woman -- representative of an entire generation -- who came of age amid the violence and rebellion of the 1980s and finally saw the destruction of apartheid and the birth of a new, democratic South Africa. Mathabane writes in Miriam's voice based on stories she told him, but he has re-created her unforgettable experience as only someone who also lived through it could. The immediacy of the hardships that brother and sister endured -- from daily school beatings to overwhelming poverty -- is balanced by the beauty of their childhood observations and the true affection that they have for each other.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743203240

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9780743203241

The Lessons of Ubuntu

How an African Philosophy Can Inspire Racial Healing in America

By: Mark Mathabane

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The Lessons of Ubuntu

How an African Philosophy Can Inspire Racial Healing in America

By: Mark Mathabane

A roadmap to healing America’s wounds, bridging the racial divide, and diminishing our anger. Mathabane touched the hearts of millions of people around the world with his powerful memoir, Kaffir Boy, about growing up under apartheid in South Africa and was praised by Oprah Winfrey and Bill Clinton. In his new book, The Lessons of Ubuntu: How an African Philosophy Can Inspire Racial Healing in America, Mathabane draws on his experiences with racism and racial healing in both Africa and America, where he has lived for the past thirty-seven years, to provide a timely and provocative approach to the search for solutions to America’s biggest and most intractable social problem: the divide between the races. In his new book, Mathabane tells what each of us can do to become agents for racial healing and justice by learning how to practice the ten principles of Ubuntu, an African philosophy based on the concept of our shared humanity. The book’s chapters on obstacles correlate to chapters on Ubuntu principles: The Teaching of Hatred vs. Empathy Racial Classification vs. Compromise Profiling vs. Learning Mutual Distrust vs. Nonviolence Black Bigotry vs. Change Dehumanization vs. Fogiveness The Church and White Supremacy vs. Restorative Justice Lack of Empathy vs. Love The Myth That Blacks and Whites Are Monolithic vs. Spirituality Self-Segregation: American Apartheid vs. Hope By practicing Ubuntu in our daily lives, we can learn that hatred is not innate, that even racists can change, and that diversity is America’s greatest strength and the key to ensuring our future. Concerned by the violent protests on university campuses and city streets, and the killing of black men by the police, Mathabane challenges both blacks and whites to use the lessons of Ubuntu to overcome the stereotypes and mistaken beliefs that we have about each other so that we can connect as allies in the quest for racial justice.

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269

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Simon and Schuster

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1510712623

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9781510712621

Kaffir Boy

The True Story Of A Black Youths Coming Of Age In Apartheid South Africa

By: Mark Mathabane

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Kaffir Boy

The True Story Of A Black Youths Coming Of Age In Apartheid South Africa

By: Mark Mathabane

A Black writer describes his childhood in South Africa under apartheid and recounts how Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith helped him leave for America on a tennis scholarship

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354

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Free Press

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0684848287

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9780684848280

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By: Mark Mathabane

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By: Mark Mathabane

True story about the author's experience growing up black in South Africa, and short history of South Africa.

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Signal Hill Publications

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0929631285

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9780929631288

Miriam's Song

A Memoir

By: Miriam Mathabane,Mark Mathabane

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A Memoir

By: Miriam Mathabane,Mark Mathabane

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The Lessons of Ubuntu

How an African Philosophy Can Inspire Racial Healing in America

By: Mark Mathabane

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How an African Philosophy Can Inspire Racial Healing in America

By: Mark Mathabane

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Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature

South Africa's Wounded Feelings

By: Mark Libin

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Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature

South Africa's Wounded Feelings

By: Mark Libin

This book examines South Africa’s post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the “new” South Africa, best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings, was fundamentally an affective, emotional project. Through the TRC hearings, which publicly broadcast the testimonies of both victims and perpetrators of gross human rights violations, the African National Congress government of South Africa, represented by Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, endeavoured to generate powerful emotions of contrition and sympathy in order to build an empathetic bond between white and black citizens, a bond referred to frequently by Tutu in terms of the African philosophy of interconnection: ubuntu. This book explores the representations of affect, and the challenges of generating ubuntu, through close readings of a variety of cultural products: novels, poetry, memoir, drama, documentary film and audio anthology.

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263

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Springer Nature

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3030559777

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9783030559779

Complicities

The Intellectual and Apartheid

By: Mark Sanders

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Complicities

The Intellectual and Apartheid

By: Mark Sanders

Complicities explores the complicated—even contradictory—position of the intellectual who takes a stand against political policies and ideologies. Mark Sanders argues that intellectuals cannot avoid some degree of complicity in what they oppose and that responsibility can only be achieved with their acknowledgment of this complicity. He examines the role of South African intellectuals by looking at the work of a number of key figures—both supporters and opponents of apartheid. Sanders gives detailed analyses of widely divergent thinkers: Afrikaner nationalist poet N. P. van Wyk Louw, Drum writer Bloke Modisane, Xhosa novelist A. C. Jordan, Afrikaner dissident Breyten Breytenbach, and Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko. Drawing on theorists including Derrida, Sartre, and Fanon, and paying particular attention to the linguistic intricacy of the literary and political texts considered, Sanders shows how complicity emerges as a predicament for intellectuals across the ideological and social spectrum. Through discussions of the colonial intellectuals Olive Schreiner and Sol T. Plaatje and of post-apartheid feminist critiques of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Complicities reveals how sexual difference joins with race to further complicate issues of collusion. Complicities sheds new light on the history and literature of twentieth-century South Africa as it weighs into debates about the role of the intellectual in public life.

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Duke University Press

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0822384221

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9780822384229

Mark Bradford

Merchant Posters

By: Mark Bradford

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Merchant Posters

By: Mark Bradford

Text by Malik Gaines, Ernest Hardy, Philippe Vergne, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.

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Gregory R. Miller & Co.

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0980024226

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9780980024227

Mark Lombardi

(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 071)

By: Mark Lombardi

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Mark Lombardi

(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 071)

By: Mark Lombardi

Der früh verstorbene US-amerikanische Künstler Mark Lombardi (1951–2000) produzierte visuelle Netzwerke und Diagramme, die die unsichtbaren Verknüpfungen zwischen politisch-ökonomischen Vorgängen, Korporationen und Individuen transparent machen. Dieses Notizbuch bildet nicht die bekannten feingliedrigen Zeichnungen und Netze ab, sondern zeigt Lombardis Recherchehilfsmittel und Denkstützen: seine Karteikarten. Der ehemalige Bibliothekar Lombardi, der für seine Akribie bekannt war, hat seine Informationen aus öffentlich zugänglichen Quellen mittels eines Karteikartensystem sortiert und archiviert, von denen einige hier abgedruckt sind. In ihrer persönlichen Einführung beschreibt Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev ihre persönlicheSicht auf dieses außergewöhnliche künstlerische Oeuvre, dessen Verbindungslinien sich der Faktenlage von Finanzskandalen, Terrorangriffen und Verbrechen unterordnen und Namen nennen. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (*1957) ist künstlerische Leiterin der dOCUMENTA (13). Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch

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Hatje Cantz Verlag

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377574925X

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9783775749251

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Miriam's Song

Miriam's Song

The Lessons of Ubuntu

The Lessons of Ubuntu

Kaffir Boy

Kaffir Boy

Selected from Kaffir Boy

Selected from Kaffir Boy

Miriam's Song

Miriam's Song

The Lessons of Ubuntu

The Lessons of Ubuntu

Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature

Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature

Complicities

Complicities

Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford

Mark Lombardi

Mark Lombardi

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