JUDITH STONE
Wednesday, May 9 at 8 p.m.

Journalist and author Judith Stone, through the story of Sandra Laing, a woman born to a pro-apartheid Afrikaner family, and told in the book, When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race (Miramax), explores how the line of race—and fate—can be drawn. "Set against the backdrop of a nation bent on dividing its people into rigid categories of color, When She Was White testifies to the mutability and complexity of race and thus to the impossibility of apartheid's abiding myth of racial purity. With uncompromising clarity, the story of one little girl reveals much about the deadly logic of racism, both past and present." - Maurice Berger.

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