Frank B. Wilderson, III
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid has won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. This
follows on the heels of the book having received the American Book Award and a finalist spot for ForeWord magazine's Book of the Year.
Not only does Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid chronicle Wilderson's life as an elected official in the ANC and his underground activities as an insurgent in Umkhonto we Sizwe, the ANC's armed wing; but it is also a riveting, funny, and disturbing account of his life as a member of the first Black family to integrate the all-White enclave Kenwood, in Minneapolis, MN; as well as his political maturation in 21st century America, when he returned from South Africa.
Please take a moment to listen to his NPR interview, Tale Told From Inside South Africa's ANC, NPR News & Notes, January 6, 2009:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3D99043092. And Google: American Book Award Winner Could Permanently Transform the National Conversation About Racial Politics.
Also, be on the lookout for Professor Wilderson's book on race, film theory, and politics Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. See the Duke University Press Spring catalog: http://www.dukeupress.edu/books/S10_catalog/Spring2010.pdf
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To learn more about Frank B. Wilderson, III please visit his website: www.incognegro.org.