It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah’s memoir spans both the apartheid and post-apartheid eras in South Africa. Do some research into how life for Black and Colored people gradually changed in South Africa after apartheid. Draw textual connections between this research and moments in Noah’s narrative. What does he do as he grows up that would not have been possible during apartheid?

Research how the legacy of apartheid continues to affect Black and Colored South Africans in a post-apartheid era. What legacies of apartheid do you see affecting Noah’s life as he grows up?

Noah explicitly identifies as Black, but he knows that other people perceive him as Colored. How do people perceive Noah throughout his memoir? How do their perceptions affect him?