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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
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