New edition with a foreword by Bernardine Evaristo '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
Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin & Bernardine Evaristo (Introduction By)
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