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New edition with a foreword by Bernardine Evaristo 'A brutal record
of segregated America ... essential reading' Guardian 'An
anti-racist classic' Bernardine Evaristo 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 is Griffin's own account of his journey.
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. 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.
'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. John Howard Griffin has come closer to this understanding
than any white man that I know.' Louis Lomax, Saturday Review '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.' Malcolm X
On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation
that changed many lives beyond his own--he made his skin black and
traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of
discovery was captured in journal entries, arguably the single most
important documentation of 20th-century American racism ever
written. More than 50 years later, this newly edited edition--which
is based on the original manuscript and includes a new design and
added afterword--gives fresh life to what is still considered a
"contemporary book." The story that earned respect from civil
rights leaders and death threats from many others endures today as
one of the great human--and humanitarian--documents of the era. In
this new century, when terrorism is too often defined in terms of a
single ethnic designation or religion, and the first black
president of the United States is subject to hateful slurs, this
record serves as a reminder that America has been blinded by fear
and racial intolerance before. This is the story of a man who
opened his eyes and helped an entire nation to do likewise.
Essential reading . . . a social document of the first order, ("San
Francisco Chronicle") this history-making classic about crossing
the color line in the segregated South is a searing work of
nonfiction, a chillingly relevant eyewitness account of race and
humanity.
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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