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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304). |
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"Such a show of power!" -- "But it makes no sense" -- "You have to learn to think for yourself" -- By the stroke of the pen -- "You can make more of a difference outside" -- Slowly, haltingly, I became acclimatized -- Anti-apartheid activist -- We took our cues from the liberation movements -- "Well, it's my turn now" -- "Welcome to Cairo" -- "Visits like yours build bridges" -- A bona fide journalist -- "We can't stop until it's over" -- Can I take my inner calm back with me? -- A conscientious observer -- "I will not have to prove it again" -- "There's been a coup!" -- "We have to fight twice" -- "You will leave from Bissau" -- "Now I need to believe in myself" -- "She doesn't know what she fought for" -- "This very day is South Africa's Pidgiguiti" -- "I am proud of you" -- Across the border from home-home -- "Now we have hope" -- "I will give my own life if necessary" -- The ripple effect of the war -- "Define your terms, comrade!" -- "I am a visitor to my past" -- A serious, full-time job in the movement -- "How much does she weight?" -- "What about the people?" -- "Night is turning into day" -- "Are you planning to return?" -- No longer the "skunk of the world" -- "Apartheid is over but the struggle is not" -- "A deception" -- Finding home -- Epilogue: "The fabric of the nation is splitting at the seams." |
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Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly opposed to the apartheid regime. In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, no longer able to tolerate the grotesque iniquities and oppression of apartheid, she chose exile and emigrated to the United States. There she embraced feminism, met anti-apartheid and solidarity movement activists, and encountered a particularly American brand of racial injustice. Urdang also met African revolutionaries such as Amilcar Cabral, who would influence her return to Africa and her subsequent journalism. In 1974, she trekked through the liberation zones of Guinea-Bissau during its war of independence; in the 1980's, she returned repeatedly to Mozambique and saw how South Africa was fomenting a civil war aimed to destroy the newly independent country. From the vantage point of her activism in the United States, and from her travels in Africa, Urdang tracked and wrote about the slow, inexorable demise of apartheid that led to South Africa's first democratic elections, when she could finally return home. Urdang's memoir maps out her quest for the meaning of home and for the lived reality of revolution with empathy, courage, and a keen eye for historical and geographic detail. This is a personal narrative, beautifully told, of a journey traveled by an indefatigable exile who, while yearning for home, continued to question where, as a citizen of both South Africa and the United States, she belongs. "My South Africa!" she writes, on her return in 1991, after the release of Nelson Mandela, "How could I have imagined for one instant that I could return to its beauty, and not its pain?" |
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Urdang, Stephanie.
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Anti-apartheid activists -- South Africa -- Biography.
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Anti-apartheid activists. |
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South Africa. |
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Biographies.
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Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa -- History.
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Anti-apartheid movements. |
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History. |
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Journalists -- South Africa -- Biography.
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South Africa -- Race relations.
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Apartheid -- South Africa -- History.
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Apartheid. |
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Journalists. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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Race relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Urdang, Stephanie. Mapping my way home. New York : Monthly Review Press, 2017 9781583676677 (DLC) 2017036816 |
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9781583676691 (electronic book) |
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1583676694 (electronic book) |
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9781583676707 (electronic book) |
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1583676708 (electronic book) |
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9781583676677 (paperback) |
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9781583676684 |
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1583676686 |
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1583676678 |
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