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South End Press is an independent, nonprofit, collectively-run book publisher with more than 250 titles in print. Since their founding in 1977, they have met the needs of readers who are exploring, or are already committed to, the politics of radical social change. Their goal is to publish books that encourage critical thinking and constructive action on the key political, cultural, social, economic, and ecological issues shaping life in the United States and in the world. They hope to provide a forum for a wide variety of democratic social movements, and provide an alternative to the products of corporate publishing.

Authors published include Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Winona LaDuke, Manning Marable, Ward Churchill, Cherr�e Moraga, and Howard Zinn�reflecting the Press's commitment to publish on diverse issues from diverse perspectives.

Check out this great title from South End Press:

Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
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Frank B. Wilderson, III

Paperback: 500 pages
Publisher: South End Press (August 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0896087832
ISBN-13: 978-0896087835
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.5 inches

�[Wilderson] will become a major American writer. Mark my word.�
�Ishmael Reed

"Frequently beautiful.... Angry and paranoid."�Kirkus

In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank Wilderson, one of only two 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: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid 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 underground wing of the ANC coordinate clandestine propaganda, launch psychological warfare, and more. In this mesmerizing political 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 today 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 the US 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.

"Fast-paced, critical, humorous, hilarious at times, Incognegro ... is a multi-layered narrative of a life molded in struggles for human dignity in America and Africa, at once a gripping story of racial politics and a biography of his soul."
�Ngugi wa Thiong'o