• TOO WHITE TO BE COLOURED, TOO COLOURED TO BE BLACK, on the search for home and meaning

TOO WHITE TO BE COLOURED, TOO COLOURED TO BE BLACK, on the search for home and meaning

: Lagardien (I.)

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244pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2022

 

“Written with brutal honesty and humility through the lens of a green-eyed ‘coloured’ in a country where Lagardien has never belonged, the book gives us a powerful and searing portrait of the annihilating consequences of race and identity politics as it courses through the apartheid era and the moral decay of racial essentialism in present-day South Africa.” Malcolm Ray, The Tyranny of Growth

“Deeply intimate, always honest and with searing insight, Ismail is as interesting as the times to which he was a front row witness.” Max du Preez, founder of Vrye Weekblad and author of A Rumour of Spring: South Africa after 20 years of democracy and The world according to Malema.

Journalist and political economist Ismail Lagardien worked as a reporter and photojournalist for the Weekly Mail and Sowetan in the late 1980s. Currently he writes for Business Day, the Daily Maverick and Vrye Weekblad.