Born in to a pro-apartheid white couple, Sandra Laing was officially registered and raised as a white child. But at a school for whites, she was mercilessly persecuted because of her dark skin and frizzy hair. Her parents attributed her appearance to an interracial union far back in family www.doorway.ru Interaction Count: · by Judith Stone. Sandra Laing was born in the wrong place at the wrong time. South Africa was in the midst of apartheid, and the little girl didn't fit in to the country's strict classifications of white, black and Coloured. Instead she baffled family and neighbors in Eastern Transvaal by sprouting kinky hair that shaped her dark complexion, much to the dismay of her ethnically Dutch, Afrikaner . · 'When She Was White' is the true story about a black girl, born in South Africa to white parents during the height of apartheid. White parents who believed in and supported the segregated system. White parents who didn't acknowledge their daughter's curly hair or darker skin, and who had no desire to change the apartheid laws to protect her/5.
Skin (), based on the book When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race by Judith Stone, about Sandra Laing, a South African woman born to white parents, who was classified as "Coloured" during the apartheid era. When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race. Judith Stone. During the worst years of official racism in South Africa, the story of one young girl came to symbolize the injustice, corruption, and arbitrary nature of apartheid. When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided By Race [Stone, Judith] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided By Race.
The True Story of a Family Divided by Race. Buy Featured Book Title When She Was White Subtitle The True Story of a Family Divided by Race Author Judith Stone. by Judith Stone. Sandra Laing was born in the wrong place at the wrong time. South Africa was in the midst of apartheid, and the little girl didn't fit in to the country's strict classifications of white, black and Coloured. Instead she baffled family and neighbors in Eastern Transvaal by sprouting kinky hair that shaped her dark complexion, much to the dismay of her ethnically Dutch, Afrikaner parents. A black woman born to white parents at the height of official apartheid in South Africa describes growing up in a white family, persecuted because of her dark skin and frizzy hair, her reclassification as "coloured," elopement with a black man, estrangement from her parents, life in a poor all-black township, and eventual reunion with her mother after the end of apartheid.
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