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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: John Howard Griffin , Bernardine EvaristoPublisher: Profile Books Ltd Imprint: Souvenir Press Ltd Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.240kg ISBN: 9780285638570ISBN 10: 0285638572 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 05 October 2009 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsOne of the most extraordinary books ever written about relations between the races. -- BBC Radio 4 * 'The Today Programme', * In 1959, a white American decided to turn himself into a 'Negro'...John Howard Griffin would venture alone into some of the Deep South's most virulently racist hotspots and experience life on the other side of the tracks...Black Like Me brilliantly reveals the dehumanisation of black people by the white majority...This reissued edition will introduce a whole new British readership to a work that is still an important, illuminating and fascinating read. -- 'The Times' * Bernardine Evaristo, * Black Like Me is in the form of a two-month diary and revealed to white America - and Griffin himself - the indignities, abuse and threat of violence that black people had to put up with on a daily basis. -- the official magazine of Black History Month * 'Black History 365', * John Howard Griffin...embarked on one of the most remarkable one-man social and psychological experiments in history...Griffin was the white man who fooled hundreds of Americans into believing he was a black man as he travelled through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia - and who felt at first hand the bigotry that meant...It is worth reading what he wrote - and then reflecting, in this age of the first African-American president, on how far we have come. And how far we have to go. -- . * BBC News website * One of the most fascinating journalistic investigations carried out in the USA...When Griffin described what he experienced...it awoke a vast section of the American public to what was happening in their country. -- . * 'The Voice' * Fifty years after John Howard Griffin darkened his skin and travelled through the segregated US south, his record of the fear and prejudice he experienced is still resonant... As long as one group persecutes, fears and detests another, Black Like Me will, sadly, remain essential reading. -- . * The Guardian * One of the most extraordinary books ever written about relations between the races. -- BBC Radio 4 * `The Today Programme', * In 1959, a white American decided to turn himself into a 'Negro'...John Howard Griffin would venture alone into some of the Deep South's most virulently racist hotspots and experience life on the other side of the tracks...Black Like Me brilliantly reveals the dehumanisation of black people by the white majority...This reissued edition will introduce a whole new British readership to a work that is still an important, illuminating and fascinating read. -- `The Times' * Bernardine Evaristo, * Black Like Me is in the form of a two-month diary and revealed to white America - and Griffin himself - the indignities, abuse and threat of violence that black people had to put up with on a daily basis. -- the official magazine of Black History Month * `Black History 365', * John Howard Griffin...embarked on one of the most remarkable one-man social and psychological experiments in history...Griffin was the white man who fooled hundreds of Americans into believing he was a black man as he travelled through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia - and who felt at first hand the bigotry that meant...It is worth reading what he wrote - and then reflecting, in this age of the first African-American president, on how far we have come. And how far we have to go. -- . * BBC News website * One of the most fascinating journalistic investigations carried out in the USA...When Griffin described what he experienced...it awoke a vast section of the American public to what was happening in their country. -- . * `The Voice' * Fifty years after John Howard Griffin darkened his skin and travelled through the segregated US south, his record of the fear and prejudice he experienced is still resonant... As long as one group persecutes, fears and detests another, Black Like Me will, sadly, remain essential reading. -- . * The Guardian * One of the most extraordinary books ever written about relations between the races. -- BBC Radio 4 * The Today Programme * In 1959, a white American decided to turn himself into a 'Negro'...John Howard Griffin would venture alone into some of the Deep South's most virulently racist hotspots and experience life on the other side of the tracks...Black Like Me brilliantly reveals the dehumanisation of black people by the white majority...This reissued edition will introduce a whole new British readership to a work that is still an important, illuminating and fascinating read. -- Bernardine Evaristo * The Times * Black Like Me is in the form of a two-month diary and revealed to white America - and Griffin himself - the indignities, abuse and threat of violence that black people had to put up with on a daily basis. -- The official magazine of Black History Month * Black History 365 * John Howard Griffin...embarked on one of the most remarkable one-man social and psychological experiments in history...Griffin was the white man who fooled hundreds of Americans into believing he was a black man as he travelled through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia - and who felt at first hand the bigotry that meant...It is worth reading what he wrote - and then reflecting, in this age of the first African-American president, on how far we have come. And how far we have to go. * BBC News website * One of the most fascinating journalistic investigations carried out in the USA...When Griffin described what he experienced...it awoke a vast section of the American public to what was happening in their country. * The Voice * Fifty years after John Howard Griffin darkened his skin and travelled through the segregated US south, his record of the fear and prejudice he experienced is still resonant... As long as one group persecutes, fears and detests another, Black Like Me will, sadly, remain essential reading. * Guardian * Author InformationJohn Howard Griffin was a novelist and photographer. He served with the French Resistance during World War Two and after the publication of Black Like Me,enduring threats and physical attacks. As a human rights activist he worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and taught at the University of Peace. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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