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Bookmark or Share- Sandra Laing Talks About Race and Her Film 'Skin' | EssenceSouth Africa's Sandra Laing's life story of colorism in the age of apartheid inspired the film "Skin." Most can’t imagine being disowned and estranged from their parents...
- Sandra Laing: Born Black with White Parents - The RootSouth African Sandra Laing was born and classified as "coloured" in the 1950s, but both parents were "white". And certainly that's genetically possible: white parents bringing home a bouncing...
- The tragic story of how a white girl being born black tore a family ...The story of Sandra Laing - of how she was reclassified as 'coloured' by the government and how her parents, insisting that she was their biological child, took their battle to keep her 'white...
- Sandra Laing - PARCSASandra Laing is a South African woman that was born black on 26 November 1955 from Sannie and Abraham Laing. It would have been strange anywhere - but in apartheid South Africa it was disastrous. It has been proven with DNA testing that Sandra is indeed the child of two white parents.
- ‘Skin’: A very personal story of the tragedy of apartheidBorn in 1955 to white Afrikaner parents, Sandra Laing had the features and skin pigmentation of a black person — the result of a genetic anomaly. She spent her life adrift between viciously...
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