WHEN SHE WAS WHITE: THE TURE STORY OF A FAMILY DIVIDED BY RACE
Book ID/图书代码： 06540007B10866
English Summary/英文概要： During the worst years of official racism in South Africa, the story of one young girl gripped the nation and came to symbolize the injustice, corruption, and arbitrary nature of apartheid. Born in 1955 to a pro-apartheid Afrikaner couple, Sandra Laing was officially registered and raised as a white child. But when she was sent to a boarding school for whites, she was mercilessly persecuted because of her dark skin and frizzy hair. Her parents attributed Sandra’s appearance to an interracial union far back in history; they swore Sandra was their child. Their neighbors, however, thought Mrs. Laing had committed adultery with a black man. The family was shunned. And when Sandra was ten, she was removed from school by the police and reclassified as "coloured."
As a teenager, Sandra eloped with a black man, and her parents disowned her. The young woman, who had only known the privileged world of the whites, chose to begin again in a poor, rural, all-black township, where life was a desperate, day-to-day struggle against poverty, illness, and a legal system designed to enslave.
In this remarkable narrative, veteran journalist and author Judith Stone takes us on her own eye-opening journey as she and Sandra explore the mysteries of Sandra’s past and piece together the fractured life of one of apartheid’s many victims. As the devastating circumstances of Sandra’s life are revealed, Stone comes to understand and admire her for the flawed -- yet enduring -- survivor she is.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 血脈相連的家人因膚色而分離的真實故事！ 故事發生在1950年代南非種族隔離政策時期。主人翁Sandra Laing是一位黑人，不過她的雙親卻是白膚色的荷裔南非(Afrikaner)。當時Sandra的父母親不知道自己擁有黑人血統，她父親還懷疑母親Sannie與黑人有染，而她生下時膚色確實不那麼白，他們把Sandra視為白人來教養，但隨著Sandra年紀的增長，膚色越來越深，頭髮越來越捲，直到十歲那年她因膚色被白人寄宿學校開除，她的人生也從此轉向黑暗。家人開始跟她保持距離，她只結識的黑人朋友，住在隔離的地區。目前Sandra依然仍居住在南非，也結婚生子了，雖然隔離政策也解除了，但她的家人到現在還是不願與她相認！
此真實故已改編成電影，並獲得各大影展及獎項的肯定！(Vincent)
Awards/获奖情况：電影網址：http://www.skinthemovie.net/site/
Reviews:
The farce and anguish of growing up under apartheid brings this close to teens everywhere. HR. ---Booklist March 1, 2007
In When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race (Miramax Books), ELLE contributor Judith Stone plumbs the public devastation and personal demons of Sandra Laing, who was born in apartheid South Africa in 1955 into a family of white Afrikaners but who was later designated "colored." Laing’s wildly bifurcated life became a potent symbol of that brutal system’s racism, injustice, and inequality; this trenchant, enlightening account brings her wrenching story forward to the present, more than a decade after apartheid’s official end. ---Elle Magazine April, 2007
In beautifully restrained prose, with a keen eye for detail and a strong sense of place, Judith Stone calmly pieces together a story that many...would rather forget. Her book, while exploring history, politics, and the tricky workings of genetics, is, above all, an attempt to do what apartheid sought to disallow: meet Sandra Laing as a human being. ---O, The Oprah Magazine April, 2007
Of all the lessons of 9/11, the most enduring is how we, as Americans, must gain mastery of the world of the under-privileged others. Through her graceful prose and engaging narrative, Judith Stone enables us to live that essential experience. ---Roya Hakakian, author of Journey From the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
To open your mind: When She Was White By Judith Stone
This is the compelling real-life saga of South African Sandra Laing, the "coloured" daughter of white parents, who, as a child became a symbol of apartheid’s cruelty. Sandra’s story is so startling and poignant, and this account so insightful, you’ll rethink every idea you have about racial identity. ---Good Housekeeping Magazine April, 2007
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About the Author/作者介绍： Judith Stone，歐普拉雜誌的特約編輯。著有Light Elements一書。文章曾在美國各大報章雜誌刊登如：The New York Times Magazine, Newsday, Elle及Vogue等。
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