Burn My Heart and Out of Bounds are two books by Beverley Naidoo that have recieved a lot of attention from the students in my class. We have been introduced to text sets dealing with civil rights movements throughout history and around the world. Both books introduced my students to the history of the battle of discrimination racial injustice in Africa. Out of Bounds is made up of a series of stories told through the eyes of children growing up through Apartied in South Africa from 1948 to 2000. Burn My Heart is the story of two boys in Kenya, one African and one White. Their friendship is forced to drastically change at the hands of racial hatrid grab both boys and test the trust they both thought was safe. As the Mau Mau rebellion grows to involve the African workers of the white farm owners, the white government tries to stop the rebellion through intimidation and interrogation. How does reading about civil rights in other time periods and other countries help readers reflect and understand the civil rights movement in our own country? Is it fair to compare these events to our own country?
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