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02231nam a22002297a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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3228 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20260413111915.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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260413b sa ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781990973420 |
| Qualifying information |
paperback |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
mpl |
| Transcribing agency |
3228 |
| Description conventions |
Resource Description and Access |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
| 082 #0 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
NF 070.92 LAGA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
198046 |
| Personal name |
Lagardien, Ismail |
| Relator term |
Author |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Too white to be coloured too coloured to be black : on search for home and meaning |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Lagardien, Ismail |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Cape Town, South Africa |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Melinda Ferguson Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2022 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
244 pages:16 unnumbered pages, |
| Other physical details |
illustrations, portraits (some color), |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Autobiography of a South African man exploring his complex racial identity and experiences growing up in a society with strict racial classifications, navigating multiple cultures and communities. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Too White to be Coloured, Too Coloured to be Black is a dazzling hybrid of memoir, commentary, first-hand observation and analysis, encapsulating defining moments of contemporary South African history and society. As a photographer, journalist, academic and columnist, the author forces a conversation between the present and the past of a country wracked by racial injustice. In exposing details of his own life - how the personal is interwoven with the public, and how the past cannot be separated from the present - Lagardien provides a taut indictment of South Africa's politics of race and recrimination. Throughout the book he pauses, often, on his own failures and shortcomings, in search of freedom; looking back, always, as if to find more pain in the past to perhaps fill the emptiness of displacement and meaninglessness. Tortured by psychological and physical violence and struggles with his "coloured" white skin and green eyes, he eventually drifts away from the ties that bind one to family, faith, identity and community towards displacement. Eventually Lagardien comes to accept his own helplessness and lack of purpose, without surrendering responsibility for his own choices. A triumphant marriage between intellectual rigour and personal disillusionment."-- Back cover.<br/><br/> |
| 521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE |
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| Target audience note |
Non - fiction |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS |
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| item type |
Book |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
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6786 |
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Chimezie Obi |
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6786 |
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Chimezie Obi |