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If you assign my book, don't censor it
The Washington Post 11/08/99
This article is a defense of my memoir Kaffir Boy against those parents who want the book banned or censored. Teachers who are facing such challenges are free to use the article in mounting a defense of their right to assign students books that broaden their horizons.
Whatever Happened to the War Against AIDS
The Oregonian 10/29/01
How Hatred is Learned and Unlearned
The Oregonian 9-10-01
A black South African learns not to Hate
USA TODAY 3-23-2001
For me, Black History Month is more than just a time to celebrate black achievements and culture. It is also a time to reflect on what I can personally do to help heal the racial divide.
Book Plumbs the Agony of a Man, and His
Nation (F)
The New York Times
This article about Mathabane describes his
childhood, his odyssey in America and the impact
the publication of Kaffir Boy
had on the publishing world and on him.
Some only can dream of school
USA TODAY
The beginning of each school year is a time for me to reflect on how education saved my life....
Memories of a Native Son (F)
People magazine
This article summarizes the highlights of Kaffir Boy, from dawn police
raids and scavenging for food in the dump to the
Soweto Student Uprising in 1976.
Arthur Ashe and Venus Williams
The Washington Post
An African word came to mind last weekend as I watched Venus Williams overpower Lindsay Davenport to win the Wimbledon championship. It is Sipho, the Zulu word for gift.....
Education as a powerful weapon of hope
The Arizona Republic
Mark addresses the educational crisis in America, and offers some solutions.
Authors and the Internet
USA TODAY
Those who are chortling over the fact that Stephen King's novella, The Plant, isn't a blockbuster on the internet miss the point....
How else will posterity understand?
Los Angeles Times
Mark argues that failure to include distinguished black authors such as Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin and Richard Wright in "The Great Books" series amounts to intellectual colonialism.
Healing the scars of apartheid
Greensboro News & Record
Mark discusses the poignant reconciliation with his father, and
explores the importance and strength of family ties.
Lobola, AIDS and Africa
The Washington Post
In this article, which is partly based on African Women: Three Generations, his tribute to his mother, grandmother and sister, Mark Mathabane discusses how the oppression of women has contributed to the spread of AIDS in his homeland of South Africa.
Appearances Are Deceiving
The New York Times
In this popular article by Mark Mathabane, he argues for the use of uniforms in public schools as a way to focus students on learning and books and less on fashion and appearances.
If you assign my book, don't censor it
The Washington Post
In this deeply personal essay about the importance of the First Amendment, Mark Mathabane takes on critics who've banned and censored his memoir, Kaffir Boy, because they object to his graphic depiction of a prostitution scene he witnessed when he was seven.
Anger and Amnesty in South Africa
The New York Times
This article by Mathabane grapples with the
question of whether or not the Truth and
Reconcilation Commission's approach to forgiving
the atrocious crimes of apartheid will help heal
his homeland's deep racial wounds.
Mixed Couples Break Down Barriers
Newsday
In this article, written to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision legalizing mixed marriages, Mark Mathabane argues that "Slavery, the Holocaust and apartheid should by now have taught us the dangers of clamors for racial purity, racial exclusivity and separatism."
Taking the Measure of American Racism (F)
Time Magazine
In this interview, Mathabane compares two forms
of apartheid -- here and in South Africa. He
discusses racism, segregation, ghettos,
education, welfare and politicians.
Like the Second Coming
Newsweek
Mathabane describes his feelings of jubilation on
the day black South Africans voted for the first
time in their lives and elected Nelson Mandela
president.
Kaffir Boy at the Typewriter
Writer's Digest
Mathabane explains how life under apartheid
compelled him to begin writing Kaffir Boy one
snowy winter morning during his junior year in
college. Essay offers encouragement to young
writers.
How Else Will Posterity Understand?
The Los Angeles Times
In this commentary, Mathabane argues that the
failure to include black authors like W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, James
Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston in "The Great
Books of the Western World" amounts to
intellectual colonialism.
Closing the Racial Communications Gap
The Los Angeles Times
In this commentary, Mathabane argues that racism
and its harmful effects will continue to plague
American society until and unless blacks and
whites begin talking to each other—rather
than always about each other.
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