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041			_aEnglish
082		0	_aNF 070.92 LAGA
100			_9198046 _aLagardien, Ismail _eAuthor
245			_aToo white to be coloured too coloured to be black : on search for home and meaning _cLagardien, Ismail
250			_aFirst edition
260			_aCape Town, South Africa _bMelinda Ferguson Books _c 2022
300			_a244 pages:16 unnumbered pages, _b illustrations, portraits (some color), _c24 cm.
500			_aAutobiography 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			_aToo 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.
521			_aNon - fiction
942			_cBOOK _2ddc _w6786 _xChimezie Obi _y6786 _zChimezie Obi
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