Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid - Hardcover
The award-winning debut by the acclaimed author of Cold New World,
Named by The New York Times Book Review as a top ten nonfiction book of 1986, this seminal piece of cross-cultural journalism is an account of a white American's experience teaching black students in South Africa--an account essential for its incisive coverage of the student anti-apartheid movement, as well as for the unpretentious charms of its prose.
Named by The New York Times Book Review as a top ten nonfiction book of 1986, this seminal piece of cross-cultural journalism is an account of a white American's experience teaching black students in South Africa--an account essential for its incisive coverage of the student anti-apartheid movement, as well as for the unpretentious charms of its prose.
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"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
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'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
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- PublisherHamish Hamilton
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0241123399
- ISBN 13 9780241123393
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages432
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