Dec 26, 2009

Mulatto | What Do I Read Next?

(Harold) Athol Fugard, a white South African who grew up in the 1930s and 1940s, attempted to resist the racism that other white South Africans practiced at this time. However, at one time, Fugard forced his black servants to call him Master Harold and spit in the face of one servant whom he regarded as a close friend. Fugard, who later become one of South Africa’s most vocal writers against the racial segregation known as apartheid, recalled this less-than-proud incident in his life in his play ‘‘Master Harold’’ . . . and the Boys (1982).

Some scholars believe...