Research Guides: Born a Crime: Starting Conversations

Starting Conversations with Your Students

The articles below are related to topics raised by Born a Crime. Each article comes from a non-academic news source such as The New York Times, NPR, or The Guardian.

These articles can serve as conversation starters to get students thinking about the issues and ideas raised by Trevor Noah's book.

Apartheid

In South Africa, Land Apartheid Lives On (Op-Ed) - Bernadette Atuahene and Alfred L. Brophy, The New York Times (January 2015)
Looking at White Privilege Under Apartheid - Finbarr O'Reilly, The New York Times (September 2016)
End of Apartheid in South Africa? Not in Economic Terms - Peter S. Goodman, The New York Times (October 2017)
20 Years After Apartheid, South Africa Asks, 'How Are We Doing?' - Greg Myre, NPR (May 2014)
The Country with the World's Worst Inequality Is ... - Jason Beaubien, NPR (April 2018)
How Apartheid Haunts a New Generation of South Africans - Kenichi Serino, The Atlantic (September 2016)
Apartheid ended 20 years ago, so why is Cape Town still 'a paradise for the few'? - Oliver Wainwright, The Guardian (April 2014)

Born a Crime

Starting Conversations with Your Students

Apartheid

Race

Colonialism

Domestic Violence