Black Like Me
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In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin chose to cross the color line. Using tablets 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 significant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity-that in this new millennium still has something vital to say to every American.
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No such darkening procedure. It was a fictional tale that would reverberate in white people circles because, of course, it was written by one of them, i.e., a white guy. DOnt get me incorrect. I admire him for how he contributed to Black American society and rights, but the secret is, that it was just a legend that had remarkable positive results. If you believed the tale, you are a SUKA!!!!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book was very monotonous. After awhile it was the same thing over and over. I liked the thought more than the book. It just wasn’t very appealing. I reflect it would have been better if they’d made the whole tale up. It tells you the things you already know. It’s just a black man walking around doing nothing appealing.
But it is classic. So I suppose you should read it whether you want to or not.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The book was informative and it got the point acorss but it was a bit dull.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Journalist John Howard Griffin changed the color of his skin to see what life in the deep south was like for a black man in the pre-civil rights era.
There are 100 additional reviews here, so I will bring up 2 points I reflect others missed, as not to repeat the conversation.
1: I would have like to see more discussion, perhaps in the epilogue or prologue, on the tablets and ointments that Griffin used. How could these products be safe! Where there after effects?
2. Sometimes the book comes across as an endorsement of Catholicism. Griffin regularly argues that blacks were more accepted in his view in Catholic communities in America. Although I disagree with this argument, as evidenced by Catholic communities in New York and Boston.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This book was very compelling read, it really helped me know what it was like to be black in the 50’s. Anyone who has difficulty understanding how the black race was treated needs to read this book because it is wonderful and very accurate in telling of how people were treated in that time. I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone!
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5