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Intercultural Book Circle: Born A Crime
Start Date: 7/24/2018Start Time: 12:00 PM
End Date: 7/24/2018End Time: 1:00 PM
Event Description

The Intercultural Book Circle will be meeting on Tuesday, July 24, at 12:00 p.m. in the James E. Marks Intercultural Center (3225 Arch Street) for a discussion of “Born A Crime” by Trevor Noah. Lunch will be served and, as always, the first 30 people to RSVP to jkrohn@drexel.edu can claim a free copy of the book. A synopsis of “Born A Crime” is below:

Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle…Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.

Contact Information:
Name: Jesse Krohn
Phone: 215.571.3839
Email: jkrohn@drexel.edu
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Location:
James E. Marks Intercultural Center (3225 Arch Street)
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  • Everyone
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