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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In a stirring interracial love story, black author Mark Mathabane ( Kaffir Boy ), born in a South African ghetto, and his white American wife, Gail, recall in alternating chapters their meeting as journalism students; stormy courtship and marriage, initially opposed by their families; and decision to have children. They attribute the success of their relationship to "mutual trust and respect for each other's individuality." Gail describes feeling overwhelmed by the unreserved, at times invasive love of her husband's family; Mark asserts that a subtle kind of American racism can be more insidious than South Africa's brutal apartheid, and notes that on his book tours blacks--especially women--react angrily to his having a white wife. Many mixed couples both in the U.S. and in South Africa, the authors find, keep their relationship secret for fear of alienating both communities. Author tour.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
While Mark Mathabane's previous autobiographical accounts, Kaffir Boy ( LJ 4/1/86) and Kaffir Boy in America ( LJ 6/1/89), focus respectively on the horrors of growing up black in South Africa and his trials and successes as a student and writer in America, this sequel deals explicitly with his courtship and marriage to a white American woman. Intriguingly structured with alternate accounts by husband and wife, Love in Black and White is, finally, a hymn of praise to the power of love in the face of deeply felt societal bigotry. The Mathabanes contend that black women show the greatest hostility when a successful black man marries a white woman. In spite of occasional triteness, highly recommended for all libraries.
- A.O. Edmonds, Ball State Univ., Muncie, Ind.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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In a stirring interracial love story, black author Mark Mathabane ( Kaffir Boy ), born in a South African ghetto, and his white American wife, Gail, recall in alternating chapters their meeting as journalism students; stormy courtship and marriage, initially opposed by their families; and decision to have children. They attribute the success of their relationship to "mutual trust and respect for each other's individuality." Gail describes feeling overwhelmed by the unreserved, at times invasive love of her husband's family; Mark asserts that a subtle kind of American racism can be more insidious than South Africa's brutal apartheid, and notes that on his book tours blacks--especially women--react angrily to his having a white wife. Many mixed couples both in the U.S. and in South Africa, the authors find, keep their relationship secret for fear of alienating both communities. Author tour.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
While Mark Mathabane's previous autobiographical accounts, Kaffir Boy ( LJ 4/1/86) and Kaffir Boy in America ( LJ 6/1/89), focus respectively on the horrors of growing up black in South Africa and his trials and successes as a student and writer in America, this sequel deals explicitly with his courtship and marriage to a white American woman. Intriguingly structured with alternate accounts by husband and wife, Love in Black and White is, finally, a hymn of praise to the power of love in the face of deeply felt societal bigotry. The Mathabanes contend that black women show the greatest hostility when a successful black man marries a white woman. In spite of occasional triteness, highly recommended for all libraries.
- A.O. Edmonds, Ball State Univ., Muncie, Ind.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
See all Editorial Reviews
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