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Crossing The Line: A Year In The Land Of Apartheid

by William Finnegan


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From Publishers Weekly
In one of the best recent books on South Africa, an American vividly recalls his experiences as a white teacher of black students near Cape Town and intersperses more detached descriptions of what was going on under apartheid. Finnegan wanted attentive, disciplined students at the same time that he encouraged in them a radical skepticism, a critical, independent habit of mind, a combative approach to all forms of vested authority. He tried to counsel his students to aim high and work hard, and he often met with hostility. Within that one year, he became acutely aware of how rapidly they were becoming more active in boycotts and protests and forming an essential element of a growing revolutionary movement. He shows how the Afrikaners' hatred for African children has led to bloody massacres and how their fear is an unspoken, unconscious recognition that communal violence is retribution for the countless blacks killed and maimed over the years. A final section describing Finnegan's long hitch-hiking trip with a bitter, white-hating, 18-year-old black woman beautifully shows the apartheid situation in microcosm.
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Norman Rush, New York Times Book Review
"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 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."

Peter Markovitz, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Standing apart from much of the emotive literature that has been written about this tortured country, Crossing the Line is a revealing and important account."

Los Angeles Times Book Review
Revealing and important.

Leonard Thompson, New York Review of Books
"An articulate and sensitive writer, Finnegan conveys the texture of life under apartheid more effectively than even the ablest newspaper reporters."

Book Description
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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About the Author
William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Among his four books is Cold New World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction of 1998 selection. He lives in New York City.

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