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Has anyone read this book by Judith Stone? I read a book review in this month's Essence magazine and now I am really interested.
I cant imagine this woman's life.
From the Publisher
When I Was White is the mesmerizing story of a black woman born to white parents during the most unforgiving years of official racism in South Africa. Sandra Laing was officially registered and raised as a white child. But when she was sent to a conservative boarding school, she was mercilessly persecuted because of her dark skin and frizzy hair-the results, her parents said, of a genetic throwback. In 1966, when Sandra was ten, the police removed her from school and she was reclassified as ''colored.'' In a bitter court battle followed closely by the press, Sandra''s parents fought, and lost.
I cant imagine this woman's life.
From the Publisher
When I Was White is the mesmerizing story of a black woman born to white parents during the most unforgiving years of official racism in South Africa. Sandra Laing was officially registered and raised as a white child. But when she was sent to a conservative boarding school, she was mercilessly persecuted because of her dark skin and frizzy hair-the results, her parents said, of a genetic throwback. In 1966, when Sandra was ten, the police removed her from school and she was reclassified as ''colored.'' In a bitter court battle followed closely by the press, Sandra''s parents fought, and lost.