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

Finnegan, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241123399 ISBN 13: 9780241123393

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 1987

Synopsis

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.

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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

Edition details

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241123399
• ISBN 13: 9780241123393
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432