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Welcome To Our Hillbrow
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Phaswane Mpe
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, December 07, 2015
Mpe died in 2004, at the end of the first decade following the election of Mandela. This novel chronicles the collapse of the old racial hierarchies, and AIDS, both the changes and the things that did not change. Whites to this day own most of the arable land and the means of production. And black South Africans today still struggle with another theme in Hillbrow: the presence of millions of black Africans, competing for a way to rise from poverty.
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
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Edwidge Danticat
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, December 07, 2015
Haiti, home of the only successful slave revolt in history. And what a backlash followed. Of course, the degradation of women is worse than that of men whose sexist privilege buffers them. Danticat's book is beautifully written, painting images of the generational impact of violence, and the current impact of violence.
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The Chosen Place, the Timeless People
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Paule Marshall
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, December 07, 2015
A portrait not only of the people of the Caribbean, but of the "white savior complex." Why is it hard for whites to see that they cannot fix the devastation created by their ancestors during colonialism without giving up privilege afforded them by systemic oppression? Take a look.
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Man of Two Tribes
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Arthur Upfield
Carter
, December 07, 2015
This book is one of the Napoleon Bonaparte series by Upfield. Bony is biracial, half Aborigine and half white, and must use all he knows from both sides of his heritage to solve crimes. This gives us a well-observed picture of two cultures and how they have done, presently do, and will clash. Racism against Aborigines has been extremely brutal, including the sport of hunting them as game. With the Australian government and mainstream culture now apologizing for these crimes, I wish we could read a book with a character like Bony set in the present!
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Shark Dialogues
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Kiana Davenport
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, December 07, 2015
Kiana Davenport, an author of Hawaiian heritage, brings us this beautifully-written novel set in Hawaii's past. I like to read a great book while wandering in the place where it's playing out and Shark Dialogues was terrific. "Sailors, lepers, opium, spies - with such a family history, how could we be anyt'ing but sluts?"
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Kissing The Virgins Mouth
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Donna Gershten
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, December 07, 2015
Winner of the Bellwether Prize, a prize offered by the foundation set up by Barbara Kingsolver - for social justice fiction. Kissing the Virgin's Mouth takes place in a fictional city which reminds me of Puerta Vallarta... The characters and dialogue are great, the portrayal of racism brilliant.
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