Honorary White by E R Braithwaite
As a black man living in a white-dominated world, author E. R. Braithwaite was painfully aware of the multitude of injustices suffered by people of color and he wrote powerfully and poignantly about racial discrimination in his acclaimed novels and nonfiction works. So it came as a complete surprise when, in 1973, the longstanding ban on his books was lifted by the South African government, a ruling body of minority whites that brutally oppressed the black majority through apartheid laws. Applying for a visa--and secretly hoping to be refused--he was granted the official status of "Honorary White" for the length of his stay. As such, Braithwaite would be afforded some of the freedoms that South Africa's black population was denied, yet would nonetheless be considered inferior by the white establishment.
With Honorary White, Braithwaite bears witness to a dark and troubling time, relating with grave honesty and power the shocking abuses, inequities, and horrors he observed and experienced firsthand during his six-week stay in a criminal nation. His book is a personal testament to the savagery of apartheid and to the courage of those who refused to be broken by it.
In the year 1912, E.R.Braithwaite was born in British Guiana (now Guyana). He received his education at City College of New York and the University of Cambridge, and he served in the Royal Air Force during WWII. Braithwaite lived in London from 1950 to 1960, first as a schoolteacher and subsequently as a welfare worker, as chronicled in his books To Sir, With Love and Paid Servant. Guyana's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations was appointed to him in 1966. He was also a professor of English at New York University's Institute for Afro-American Affairs, a creative writing instructor at Howard University, and the author of five nonfiction works and two novels. At the age of 104, he died in 2016.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781480457683 |
| ISBN 10 | 148045768X |
| Title | Honorary White |
| Author | E R Braithwaite |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Open Road Media |
| Year published | 2014-01-14 |
| Number of pages | 202 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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