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Trevor Noah Was Born a Crime

Celebrity Memoir Book Club

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Limited Options for Black Workers and Unconventional Choices

Black people in the past had limited job options, with farming, factory work, and domestic work being the main choices/nSome black individuals were able to find alternative employment opportunities, like taking secretarial courses/nCertain people, including white individuals, disregarded the discriminatory laws and rented out apartments to prostitutes/nThe protagonist of the story ends up living in a dangerous situation and eventually has a child with a Swiss German man/nThe government created segregated living spaces called homelands for black people, but they were still needed for labor near white areas

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