The Color of Friendship
Recommended from age 11. Apartheid and the death of Steve Biko.
Reason translated with AI from our Spanish original.
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- Difficult themes
- War, bullying, illness, broken families, hard real events.
- Stereotypes
- Stereotypes of their time, unchallenged.
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Medium confidence · They broadly agree.
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UK
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Spain
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Availability as of 17 October 2026. Data from JustWatch.
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What it’s about
Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
Genres: Drama
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