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1 online resource (viii, 229 pages) |
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Modern African writing |
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Modern African writing.
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| Contents |
Pinky -- Here be Dragons -- A Long Way from Here -- A Strange New Home -- Another Journey across the Indian Ocean -- In the City of Gold -- Of Phoenixes and Dragons -- Growing up with Mr. and Mrs. Ho -- Johnny Depp, Segregation and Sequins -- My Father, the Fahfee Man -- Weekend Dad -- Another Day, Another Dollar -- Mah Jong and Ponies -- The Outside Toilet -- The Hand that History Deals -- The Dark Night -- A New Day -- The Under-catered Party -- Dear Ah Ba |
| Summary |
Ufrieda Ho's compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it, relegated to certain neighborhoods and certain jobs, living in a kind of gray zone between the blacks and the whites. As long as they adhered to these rules, they were left alone. Ho describes the separate journeys her parents took before they knew one another, each leaving China and Hong Kong around the early1960s, arriving in South Africa as i |
| Notes |
Originally published: Johannesburg, South Africa : Picador Africa, 2011 |
| Subject |
Ho, Ufrieda
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Ho, Ufrieda -- Family
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| SUBJECT |
Ho, Ufrieda fast |
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Chinese -- South Africa -- Biography
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Chinese -- South Africa -- Ethnic identity
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Chinese -- South Africa -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- African.
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Chinese
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Chinese -- Ethnic identity
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Families
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Race relations
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South Africa -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125494
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South Africa -- Biography
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South Africa
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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History
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0821444441 |
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9780821444443 |
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