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Black Like Me |
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| Book: Paperback: Mass Market | 4.25 x 6.73in | 208 pages | ISBN 9780451192035 | 01 Nov 1996 | Signet | 18 - AND UP |
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The international bestseller
The Deep South of the late 1950's was another country: a land of lynchings, segregated lunch counters, whites-only restrooms, and a color line etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. White journalist John Howard Griffin, working for the black-owned magazine Sepia, decided to cross that 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.
What happened to John Howard Griffin--from the outside and within himself--as he made his way through the segregated Deep South is recorded in this searing work of nonfiction. Educated and soft-spoken, John Howard Griffin changed only the color of his skin. It was enough to make him hated...enough to nearly get him killed. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity every American should read.
"Essential reading...a social document of the first order...with such authenticity that it cannot be dismissed." -San Francisco Chronicle
"A stinging indictment of thoughtless, needless inhumanity. No one can read it without suffering." -Dallas Morning News
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