Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
by Frank B. Wilderson, III
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In this mesmerizing political memoir, Frank Wilderson recollects his turbulent life as an expatriate in South Africa during the furious last gasps of apartheid, where he taught at universities by day, and helped the ANC coordinate clandestine propaganda and launch psychological warfare by night.Tags
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A riveting memoir written in part in South Africa during apartheid and also part in the US. Wilderson really details the anti-apartheid movement, and how the radical (as always) ideas were sold out to mainstream economic viewpoints. He also writes about social issues in the US, being with white women and living as a black man in a racial society.
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- Original publication date
- 2008-08-01
- Important places
- South Africa
- Epigraph
- It seemed to me that Christopher's options and possibilities could change only when the actual framework changed: and the metamorphosis of the framework into which we had been born would almost certainly be so violent as to b... (show all)low Christopher, and me, and all of us, away.
- James Baldwin,
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone - Dedication
- for
Rebaabetswe Wilderson
Nehanda Abiodun
Jalil Muntaqim
and in loving memory of
Merle Africa
Safiya Bukhari-Alston
Bushy Kelebonye - First words
- "Mr. Wilderson?"
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Fold upon fold of quiet wave pushed forth, knocking the boat gently about, as though from their footsteps on gray wood.
- Blurbers
- Reed, Ishmael; James, Joy; Thiong'o, Ngugi wa
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- Genres
- Anthropology, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 305.896 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups Other ethnic and national groups Africans and people of African descent; Blacks of African origin
- LCC
- E185.97 .W6128 .A3 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans Biography. Genealogy
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- 93
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- 340,678
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (4.71)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
