Black Like me: Updated with a New Epilogue - Softcover

Griffin, John Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451163176 ISBN 13: 9780451163172

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

Synopsis

He trudged southern streets searching for a place where he could eat or rest, looking vainly for a job other than menial labor, feeling the "hate stare". He was John Griffin, a white man who darkened the color of his skin and crossed the line into a country of hate, fear, and hopelessness--the country of the American Black man.

About this title

Review:

-Essential reading...a social document of the first order, providing material absolutely unavailable elsewhere 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
-Black Like Me is a moving and troubling book written by an accomplished novelist. It is a scathing indictment of our society.---Saturday Review

"Essential reading...a social document of the first order, providing material absolutely unavailable elsewhere 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

"Black Like Me is a moving and troubling book written by an accomplished novelist. It is a scathing indictment of our society."--Saturday Review

About the Author:

John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) is known internationally as the author of two novels, Nuni and The Devil Rides Outside, five books and monographs on racism in addition to Black Like Me, a biography of Thomas Merton, three collections of photography, a volume of journals, two historical works on Texas, a musicological study, and The John Howard Reader. Born in Dallas, Texas, and educated in France, he served in the U.S. Air Force in the South Pacific, where an injury he received during a Japanese bombardment eventually resulted in the complete loss of his sight. In the 1950's he converted to Catholicism, married, and raised a family. In 1957, (after ten years of blindness) he miraculously regained his sight.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0451163176
• ISBN 13: 9780451163172
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192