{"id":49673,"date":"2016-11-25T17:34:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T17:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49673"},"modified":"2016-12-27T18:39:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T18:39:22","slug":"born-a-crime-stories-from-a-south-african-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49673","title":{"rendered":"Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Spiegel & Grau<\/a> (an imprint of Random House)
\n2016-11-15
\n204 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0399588174<\/p>\n

Trevor Noah<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man\u2019s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid<\/a> and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed<\/em><\/p>\n

Trevor Noah\u2019s<\/a> unlikely path from apartheid South Africa<\/a> to the desk of The Daily Sho<\/em>w<\/a> began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa<\/a> mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents\u2019 indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa\u2019s <\/a>tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.<\/p>\n

Born a Crime<\/em> is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man\u2019s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother\u2014his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.<\/p>\n

The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother\u2019s unconventional, unconditional love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Spiegel & Grau (an imprint of Random House) 2016-11-15 204 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0399588174 Trevor Noah The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man\u2019s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed Trevor Noah\u2019s unlikely path from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,395,11,8,17,520],"tags":[20102,15219],"class_list":["post-49673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-south-africa","tag-spiegel-grau","tag-trevor-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49676,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49673\/revisions\/49676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}