Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid - Softcover

Finnegan, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060914300 ISBN 13: 9780060914301

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1987

Synopsis

Features an account of the experiences of a white American writer teaching at Grassy Park High in Cape Town during the 1980 student-planned boycott

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Review:

"Young Americans could find no better introduction to South Africa than this captivating memoir: the education of William Finnegan, a highly articulate and thoughtful California surfer who taught for a year at a Coloured high school outside Cape Town and hitchhiked around the country. Remarkably, there also emerges an account of the 1980 school boycotts and the complexities of black thinking about resistance that makes the book an original work of value to the academic specialist."--"Foreign Affairs

From the Back Cover:

'How does it happen that the main combatants in the struggle against the South African race state are children? In 'Crossing the Line' we have a powerful and responsible testimony illuminating that question and the others that flow from it. This may be the best book to give to an American trying for the first time to understand the agony of South Africa.' NORMAN RUSH, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0060914300
• ISBN 13: 9780060914301
• Binding: Paperback