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Title: Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin, Ray Childs ISBN: 0-9741711-0-7 Publisher: Audio Bookshelf Pub. Date: January, 2004 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (107 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A True Experience
Comment: Black Like Me delineates the experience of John Howard Griffin, a white writer who specialized in race issues, who desperately wanted to know what it was like to be an African-American in the Deep South in order to experience discrimination based on skin color, something over which one has no control. In 1959, Griffin risked everything, including his career, his family, and his reputation. With the support of an African-American magazine and the help of dermatologists, he took medication that darkened his skin to a deep brown. He changed nothing but the color of his skin, and witnessed on a first-hand account what it was like to be a Negro. He began his journey in New Orleans and was shocked to discover how the whites treated him like scum, and all African-Americans treated him like their brother. He immediately found that he had to walk across town just to find a café that would serve him food and water, or that he would have to walk around a building in order to find a "colored" bathroom that he could use. Despite his education and qualifications, he had trouble finding a job. He traveled all throughout the Deep South, stopping in Alabama and Mississippi, which made New Orleans seem like the North. He began to feel like he had truly become an African-American, and felt bitter towards the Southern whites. His experience completely opened his eyes to what the real definition of racism is, and he hoped that his book would do the same for millions of people throughout the world. Black Like Me is John Howard Griffin's attempt to reveal the truth about discrimination and racism, and in my opinion that is exactly what it did. I recommend this book to those readers who usually can't stay interested in a book. You will not want to put this one down.
Rating: 5
Summary: An eye-opener
Comment: I read Black Like Me because the picture on the cover intrigued me. I think now I am a better person for having read it. Just like Mr. Griffin confronted his own prejudice when looking at his reflection in the mirror, I realized too that I might be harboring baseless stereotypes. The fact that a white man darkening his skin color meant that he had to walk miles to eat or drink just forty years ago is astounding and sickening at the same time. People that are easily angered by acts of segregation or intolerance may not want to read this book because there are several instances of blind hatred. White truckers would offer John rides at night only to ask inappropriate questions about his sex life. A bus driver refused to let the black passengers off to use the restroom on a trip. I am not sure I would want to experience what life must have been like for a black person in those times. However, I am glad that John Howard Griffin did. The fact that the author happened to be extremely talented at his practice makes the reading that much better. I think everyone should read this book at some point in their lives...black, white, brown, old, or young. There are few books that can alter your day to day living, and this is one of them.
Rating: 5
Summary: I remember when this book first came out
Comment: What a sensation Black Like Me caused when it was first released, back in the 60s, I think. I was in college, and everyone was suddenly reading it. The fact that it's still in print and selling at #3000 on Amazon is a testament to the universal appeal and underlying message of JH Griffin's book.
Here's the deal: in the 50s, the author was a journalist in the Deep South, and decided to experience the life of a black man by crossing the color line. He took medication that darkened his skin and exchanged his live as a privileged white man for the world of an unemployed black man. Black Like Me is his eyewitness history about race and humanity - and ultimately humility.
Should be read by every thinking person in the country. I just put it into the hands of my 19yo son and said, "Read this."
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Title: Man in the Mirror: John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like Me by Robert Bonazzi ISBN: 1570751188 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Nigger by Dick Gregory ISBN: 0671735608 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Black Like Me (Cliffs Notes) by Margaret Mansfield ISBN: 0822002450 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: March, 1971 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism, and Fifties America (Culture Work) by Marjorie B. Garber, Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Margorie Garber ISBN: 0415911206 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X ISBN: 0345350685 Publisher: African American Images Pub. Date: 12 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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