International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Through the history, conflicts are always the cause of pain, sorrow and death. Nowadays more are developing for different rationale; colour, religion, race, gender; leaving millions of people to suffer all around the world. Racism has been a hot topic in literature; writers are examining the treatment of various kinds of discrimination as a weapon against hatred and anger.


29 April 2012

July’s People
By: Nadine Gordimer
Published in London, Cape, 1981
Maureen and Bam Smales, a white liberal family with their three children escape the civil war  with the help of their servant July, and hide out in his village in rural South Africa. Another battle starts when the roles of servant and master start to change alongside with Maureen and Bam relationship and their children.

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