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

The Street Sweeper:
By: Elliot Perlman
Published in Sydney NSW, Vintage, 2011

Lamont Williams, an African American, is out of prison and working a caretaker in a cancer hospital. He becomes a friend with one of the patients, Henryk Mandelbrot, an elderly holocaust survivor in Auschwitz camp. At the same time, a historian professor, Adam Zignelik, whose life and job is falling apart, starts a research about African America being part of liberating concentration camps in WWII.



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