This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.
This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.
Griffin turned himself into a black man to experience the sting of prejudice firsthand.
The companion volume to the 50th-anniversary edition of Black Like Me, this book features John Howard Griffin’s later writings on racism and spirituality.
For Black Girls Like Me is for anyone who has ever asked themselves: How do you figure out where you are going if you don’t know where you came from?
This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.
" After describing this journey and analyzing the text ofBlack Like Me, Robert Bonazzi treats the dramatic aftermath of Griffin's experiment and life.Man in the Mirrorprovides a fascinating look at the roots of this important book, and ...
Hurston also collected numerous examples of the same kind of animal lore that Joel Chandler Harris had heard, adapted by her neighbors to their swampy Gulf environs—how Brer Gator got his grin, how the possum lost the hair on his tail, ...
Flipping John Howard Griffin's classic Black Like Me, and extending Noel Ignatiev's How The Irish Became White into the present-day, Wise explores the meanings and consequences of whiteness, and discusses the ways in which racial privilege ...
When a black family moves to an all-white neighborhood, prejudice rears its ugly head as the white adults behave rudely and children's friendships break up.
This comprehensive edition explores the life of John Howard Griffin as well as the issue of race as presented in his most famous work, Black Like Me, which details Griffin's experiment darkening his skin to pass as a black man during the ...