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02996aam a2200397 i 4500 001 ABAF71EE38A911ED914067003BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220920010102 008 220525s2022 sa acf 000 0aeng d 020 $a 1990973426 020 $a 9781990973420 035 $a (OCoLC)1319821643 040 $a OI@ $b eng $e rda $c OI@ $d OI@ $d NX@ $d Z@L $d HUL $d OCLCF $d PUL $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9369.3 .L328 $b .Z46 2022 082 04 $a 070.92 $2 23/eng/20220719 100 1 $a Lagardien, Ismail, $e author. 245 10 $a Too white to be coloured too coloured to be black : $b on the search for home and meaning / $c Ismail Lagardien. 250 $a First edition, first impression 264 1 $a Cape Town, South Africa : $b Melinda Ferguson Books, $c 2022. 300 $a 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : $b illustrations, portraits (some colour) ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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."-- $c Back cover. 600 10 $a Lagardien, Ismail. 650 0 $a Journalists $z South Africa $v Biography. 650 0 $a Colored people (South Africa) $v Biography. 650 7 $a Colored people (South Africa) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00868707 650 7 $a Journalists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00984188 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Race relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086509 651 0 $a South Africa $x Politics and government. 651 0 $a South Africa $x Race relations. 651 7 $a South Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204616 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft $0 (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026047 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030738.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=ABAF71EE38A911ED914067003BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search