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Winner of the 2008 American Book Award/Before Columbus Foundation
In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank Wilderson, one of only two Black American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him “a threat to national security.” Wilderson was asked to comment. Incognegro is that “comment.” It is also his response to a question posed five years later by a student in a California university classroom: “How come you came back?”
Although Wilderson recollects his turbulent life in South Africa during the furious last gasps of apartheid, Incognegro is a quintessentially American story. Wilderson taught at Johannesburg and Soweto universities by day. By night, he helped the ANC coordinate clandestine propaganda, launch psychological warfare, and more. In this mesmerizing memoir, Wilderson’s lyrical prose flows from childhood episodes in the white Minneapolis enclave “integrated” by his family to a rebellious adolescence at the student barricades in Berkeley and under tutelage of the Black Panther Party; from unspeakable dilemmas in the red dust and ruin of South Africa to political battles raging quietly on US campuses and in his intimate life. Readers will find themselves suddenly overtaken by the subtle but resolute force of Wilderson’s biting wit, rare vulnerability, and insistence on bearing witness to history no matter the cost.
A literary tour de force sure to spark fierce debate in both America and South Africa, Incognegro retells a story most Americans assume we already know, with a sometimes awful, but ultimately essential clarity about global politics and our own lives.
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African-American Studies, South Africa Aparthied, Autobiography, Memoir, Revolution, African national congress, African americans, biography, African americans, race identity, Civil rights, united states, South africa, biography, Anti-apartheid movements, United states, social conditions, 1960-, South africa, social conditions, Apartheid, Social conditions, African Americans, Biography, African National Congress, History, Race identity, Social Movements, neoliberalism, Afro-Pessimism, Civil rights, United states, social conditionsPlaces
South Africa, Johannesburg, United StatesTimes
1991 - 1996, 1960-1980, 1961-, 20th century, 21st century, 1980-Showing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
2015, Duke University Press
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Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
2015, Duke University Press
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Incognegro: a memoir of exile and apartheid
2008, South End Press
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Incognegro: From Black Power to Apartheid and Back
April 15, 2007, South End Press
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0807072680 9780807072684
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