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Black Like Me
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Black Like Me (1961) (edit title/settings)

by John Howard Griffin (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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Black like me..
Interesting vague and brave. These are the words that come to mind when thinking of this book and how far ive read.
Firstly for a white man (John Howard Griffin) to want to know and feel the inner thoughts and feelings of a black. Blows me away... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Black like me..
Interesting vague and brave. These are the words that come to mind when thinking of this book and how far ive read.
Firstly for a white man (John Howard Griffin) to want to know and feel the inner thoughts and feelings of a black. Blows me away completely.
Questions like What was his childhood like and Did he have black friends begin to surface when reading this book.
This story takes place in the 1950's.. So the scenery's a bit different but the dialogue sounds familiar.

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  • “They put us low, and then blame us for being down there and say that since we are low, we can't deserve our rights.”
  • “I began to understand Lionel Trilling's remark that culture - learned behavoir patterns so deeply engrained they produce unconscious involuntary reactions - is a prison.”
  • “Racism always hides under a respectable guise - usually the guise of patriotism and religion.”
  • “your children don't hate us. God no! Children have to be taught that kind of filth”
  • “above all the rise beyond vengence. If some spark does set the keg on fire, it will be a senseless tragedy of ignorant against ignorant, injustice answering injustice. A holocost that will drag down the innocent and right thinking masses of human beings. Then we will all pay for not having cried for justice long ago.”

First Sentence edit see section history

For years the idea had haunted me, and that night it returned more insistently than ever.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. John Howard Griffin (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1961
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 176

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  • Library of Congress: E185.61 .G8
  • Dewey: 975.00496073

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