Posted on by gkramerThis week in North Philly Notes, Grant Farred, author of The Perversity of Gratitude, writes about what his apartheid education taught him. I write this blog on the 4th of January, 2024, having just hours ago received my advance copies of The Perversity of Gratitude: An Apartheid Education. “Apartheid made me think.” That is the opening line and the resonant sentiment that animates The Perversity of Gratitude. I am grateful to my apartheid education, perverse as that might seem; my anti-apartheid teachers prepared me for this moment. But I do have a singular advantage: my apartheid education.
