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Resources for incorporating Born a Crime into your course.
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Starting Conversations with Your Students
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The articles below are related to topics raised by Born a Crime. Each article comes from a non-academic news source such as The New York Times, NPR, or The Guardian.
These articles can serve as conversation starters to get students thinking about the issues and ideas raised by Trevor Noah's book.
25 Years After Apartheid Ended, South Africa's Land Rights Problem Is Boiling Over, NPR (June 2019)
Looking at White Privilege Under Apartheid - Finbarr O'Reilly, The New York Times (September 2016)
20 Years After Apartheid, South Africa Asks, 'How Are We Doing?' - Greg Myre, NPR (May 2014)
The Country with the World's Worst Inequality Is ... - Jason Beaubien, NPR (April 2018)
In this podcast episode of “The Argument,” Jane Coaston has an extended chat with the late-night host Trevor Noah. They discuss taking on the mantle of “The Daily Show” from Jon Stewart, cancel culture and why you can’t take old jokes out of the context of the society in which they were made.
South Africa Through The Eyes Of A Post-Apartheid Generation - Weekend Edition, NPR (May 2014)
Distrust Remains Between Whites, Blacks In South Africa - Tell Me More, NPR (December 2010)
America has a lot to learn from South Africa - Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post (April 2018)
Raw Tensions Over Race Fester in South Africa - Alan Cowell, The New York Times (March 2016)