{"id":50471,"date":"2016-12-07T02:43:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T02:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50471"},"modified":"2016-12-07T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T17:06:10","slug":"born-a-crime-trevor-noahs-raw-account-of-life-under-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50471","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Born a Crime,\u2019 Trevor Noah\u2019s Raw Account of Life Under Apartheid"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Born a Crime,\u2019 Trevor Noah\u2019s Raw Account of Life Under Apartheid<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2016-11-28<\/p>\n

Michiko Kakutani<\/strong><\/a>, Chief Book Critic<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nTrevor Noah<\/a>, host of \u201cThe Daily Show<\/a>,\u201d in 2015. His memoir<\/a> provides a harrowing look at life in South Africa under apartheid<\/a> and then after that era.
\nCredit Chad Batka for The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

As host of \u201cThe Daily Show<\/a>,\u201d Trevor Noah<\/a> comes across as a wry, startled and sometimes outraged outsider, commenting on the absurdities of American life. During the presidential campaign, the South African-born comic remarked that Donald J. Trump<\/a> reminded him of an African dictator<\/a>, mused over the mystifying complexities of the Electoral College<\/a> system and pointed out the weirdness of states voting on recreational marijuana<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the countdown to and aftermath of the election, Mr. Noah has grown more comfortable at moving back and forth between jokes and earnest insights, between humor and serious asides \u2014 the way he\u2019s done in his stand-up act, and now, in his compelling new memoir, \u201cBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood<\/a>.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Born a Crime,\u2019 Trevor Noah\u2019s Raw Account of Life Under Apartheid The New York Times 2016-11-28 Michiko Kakutani, Chief Book Critic Trevor Noah, host of \u201cThe Daily Show,\u201d in 2015. His memoir provides a harrowing look at life in South Africa under apartheid and then after that era. Credit Chad Batka for The New York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,395,5,8,520],"tags":[25654,2640,2327,15219],"class_list":["post-50471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-south-africa","tag-michiko-kakutani","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-trevor-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50471","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=50471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50473,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50471\/revisions\/50473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}