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A PLACE IN THE SUN.(When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race)(Brief article)(Book review)

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| April 01, 2007 | Bahrenburg, Genevieve | COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Genevieve Bahrenburg

Out of Africa come two gripping accounts of young girls growing up on a continent in conflict. In When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race (Hyperion), journalist Judith Stone chronicles the life of Sandra Laing, who was born with black features to white Afrikaner parents at the height of South African apartheid. Shuttled between two identities-at the age of ten she is forcibly removed from her all-white school by armed, khaki-uniformed policemen-she overcomes playground persecution, spousal abuse, abject poverty, and family disownment in her ...

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