Black Like Me

Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin

Black Like Me
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Author: John Howard Griffin
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2003-05-06
ISBN: 0451208641
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: NAL Trade

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Book Review: Constructing Race, the artifice of being Other
Summary: 5 Stars

Before there was comic "Soul Man" etc., there was this 50's investigative memoir about a white male 'passing' as a black man to 'experience' black culture. Also, try Philip Roth's "The Stain" movie and book based on a real life BM passing for WM.

Summary of Black Like Me

In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity-that in this new millennium still has something important to say to every American.

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