Frederik Willem de Klerk

In 2008, the book, When She Was White: the True Story of a Family Divided by Race, written by Judith Stone, was turned into a documentary (Skin). Skin, as it would be called, details the true story of Sandra Laing. Sandra Laing is a South African woman who was born with a genetic disorder called Atavism. Despite being born to white parents, Laing exhibited African physical characteristics. Because of this, Laing was classified as colored during the apartheid era (Skin). Both the book and the film

Shinichi Tanaka Cherie Haines, Associate Professor English Composition II, Wednesday AM September 24, 2014 Titile 1. Introduction It has been exactly 20 years since apartheid was withdrawn in South Africa. A lot of things have changed and improved to the black Africans. South African became one of the largest economical continents in the world. It seems the black Africans’ lives have got better compared to the time people were under the control of apartheid. There is a tremendous gap between the

The topic that I chose is racism. Racism is a part of the human society that has been around since the early 1600’s as stated in http://socialistworker.org/2010/10/21/the-roots-of-racism although it was also around since the 1400’s but not as much as in the 1600’s. A fact that backs this up is from a website http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/chrono2.htm where it explained “Slavery had existed in Europe from Classical times and did not disappear with the collapse of the Roman Empire. Slaves remained