'If it was a frightening experience for him as nothing but a make-believe Negro for sixty-six days, then you think about what real Negroes in America have gone through for 400 years. Black Like Me Paperback Octoby John Howard Griffin (Author, Epilogue), Robert Bonazzi (Afterword) 2,364 ratings See all formats and editions School & Library Binding 20.80 23 Used from 9.53 16 New from 16.61 1 Collectible from 42.21 Paperback 8.59 113 Used from 1.46 33 New from 7.49 1 Collectible from 32. Like hitchhiking itself, these conversations would seem to be particularly dangerous for any black man, but even more so for Griffin.
John Howard Griffin has come closer to this understanding than any white man that I know.' Louis Lomax, Saturday Review 'There is a saying among Negroes that no white man, no matter how hard he tries, can really understand what it's like to be black in America. Embraced by some and fiercely criticised by others, its legacy sixty years on remains problematic, but Black Like Me nevertheless stands as a fascinating document of its times. Published in book form two years later it sold over five million copies, revealed to a white audience the daily experience of racism and became one of the best-known accounts of racial injustice in Jim Crow-era America. Black Like Me is Griffin's own account of his journey. In the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin travelled across the Deep South of the United States disguised as a working-class black man. Black Like Me: Griffin, John Howard: 9781788164528: : Books Books History Americas Enjoy fast, FREE delivery, exclusive deals and award-winning movies & TV shows with Prime Try Prime and start saving today with Fast, FREE Delivery Buy new: 15. 'An anti-racist classic' Bernardine Evaristo
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