Biography & Autobiography by John Howard Griffin

Black Like Me

Author: John Howard Griffin

Publisher: Penguin

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Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 192

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This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.
Biography & Autobiography by John Howard Griffin

Black Like Me

Author: John Howard Griffin

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN:

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 200

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A white writer recounts his experiences in the American South following treatments that darkened his skin and shares his thoughts on the problems of prejudice and racial injustice.
African Americans by John Howard Griffin

Black Like Me Teacher Guide

Author: John Howard Griffin

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Category: African Americans

Page: 32

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Griffin turned himself into a black man to experience the sting of prejudice firsthand.
Art by Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson

Author: Fred Wilson

Publisher: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art

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Category: Art

Page: 64

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Introduction by Richard Klein.
History by Elaine Pereira Rocha

Another Black Like Me

Author: Elaine Pereira Rocha

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

ISBN:

Category: History

Page: 230

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This book brings together authors from different institutions and perspectives and from researchers specialising in different aspects of the experiences of the African Diaspora from Latin America. It creates an overview of the complexities of the lives of Black people over various periods of history, as they struggled to build lives away from Africa in societies that, in general, denied them the basic right of fully belonging, such as the right of fully belonging in the countries where, by choice or force of circumstance, they lived. Another Black Like Me thus presents a few notable scenes from the long history of Blacks in Latin America: as runaway slaves seen through the official documentation denouncing as illegal those who resisted captivity; through the memoirs of a slave who still dreamt of his homeland; reflections on the status of Black women; demands for citizenship and kinship by Black immigrants; the fantasies of Blacks in the United States about the lives of Blacks in Brazil; a case study of some of those who returned to Africa and had to build a new identity based on their experiences as slaves; and the abstract representations of race and color in the Caribbean. All of these provide the reader with a glimpse of complex phenomena that, though they cannot be generalized in a single definition of blackness in Latin America, share the common element of living in societies where the definition of blackness was flexible, there were no laws of racial segregation, and where the culture on one hand tolerates miscegenation, and on the other denies full recognition of rights to Blacks.
Biography & Autobiography by Cecile Pineda

Black Like Me

Author: Cecile Pineda

Publisher: Wings Press (TX)

ISBN:

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 239

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Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges forthis very reason. Regardless of how much progress has been made in eliminating outright racism from American life, Black Like Me endures as a great human--and humanitarian--document. In our era, when "international" terrorism is most often defined in terms of a single ethnic designation and a single religion, we need to be reminded that America has been blinded by fear and racial intolerance before. As John Lennon wrote, "Living is easy with eyes closed." Black Like Me is the story of a man who opened his eyes, and helped an entire nation to do likewise.
Biography & Autobiography by John Howard Griffin

Black Like Me

Author: John Howard Griffin

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN:

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 200

View: 739

A white writer recounts his experiences in the American South following treatments that darkened his skin and shares his thoughts on the problems of prejudice and racial injustice.
Biography & Autobiography by Robert Bonazzi

Man in the Mirror

Author: Robert Bonazzi

Publisher: Wings Press

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Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 227

View: 731

First published by Orbis Books in 1997,Man in the Mirrortells the story behindBlack Like Me, a book that astonished America upon its publication in 1961, and remains an American classic 50 years later. In 1959 a white writer darkened his skin and passed for a time as a "Negro" in the Deep South. John Howard Griffin was that writer, and his bookBlack Like Meswiftly became a national sensation. Few readers know of the extraordinary journey that led to Griffin's risky "experiment"—the culmination of a lifetime of risk, struggle, and achievement. A native of Texas, Griffin was a medical student who became involved in the rescue of Jews in occupied France; a U.S. serviceman among tribal peoples in the South Pacific, where he suffered an injury that left him blinded for a decade; a convert to Catholicism; and, finally, a novelist and writer. All these experiences fed Griffin's drive to understand what it means to be human, and how human beings can justify treating their fellows—of whatever race or physical description—as "the intrinsic Other." 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 offers reflections on why, after all these years, it retains its impact and relevance.
Juvenile Nonfiction by Judith Vigna

Black Like Kyra, White Like Me

Author: Judith Vigna

Publisher: Turtleback

ISBN:

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction

Page: 32

View: 424

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.
Fiction by Spencer Borisoff

Black-Like-Me

Author: Spencer Borisoff

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Category: Fiction

Page: 255

View: 636

This is a heartwarming, ever-evolving story about a socially transplanted Caucasian brother and sister thrust by circumstance into life and love in the hood. It is the joy of acceptance and the pain of rejection finally told from the opposite perspective of black Americans being denied assimilation into white society. It is the "OC" inside out, blended with Spike Lee's Jungle Fever upside down, and a kinder, warmer Eminem's 8-Mile. It is a story whose time has finally come. Its chemistry is exquisitely perfect. It presents situations that evoke only empathy, and characters that everyone will relate to and ultimately embrace. Black-Like-Me is the realization of American life and its true promise of human manifest destiny. Read this and swell up inside. Hey, you are about to fall in love!
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Black Enterprise

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Page: 112

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BLACK ENTERPRISE is the ultimate source for wealth creation for African American professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Every month, BLACK ENTERPRISE delivers timely, useful information on careers, small business and personal finance.
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Ebony

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Page: 192

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EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Social Science by John Griffin

Prison of Culture

Author: John Griffin

Publisher: Wings Press

ISBN:

Category: Social Science

Page: 160

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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. Conveying a progressive evolution in thinking, it further explores Griffin’s ethical stand in the human rights struggle and nonviolent pursuit of equality—a view he shared with greats such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Merton. Enlightening and forthright, this record also focuses on Griffin’s spiritual grounding in the Catholic monastic tradition, discussing the illuminating meditations on suffering and the author’s own reflections on communication, justice, and dying.
Social Science by Rinaldo Walcott

Black Like Who?

Author: Rinaldo Walcott

Publisher: Insomniac Press

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Category: Social Science

Page: 187

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Rinaldo Walcott's groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, Black Like Who?, caused such an uproar upon its publication in 1997 that Insomniac Press has decided to publish a second revised edition of this perennial best-seller. With its incisive readings of hip-hop, film, literature, social unrest, sports, music and the electronic media, Walcott's book not only assesses the role of black Canadians in defining Canada, it also argues strenuously against any notion of an essentialist Canadian blackness. As erudite on the issue of American super-critic Henry Louis Gates' blindness to black Canadian realities as he is on the rap of the Dream Warriors and Maestro Fresh Wes, Walcott's essays are thought-provoking and always controversial in the best sense of the word. They have added and continue to add immeasurably to public debate.
Young Adult Nonfiction by David Erik Nelson

Race in John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me

Author: David Erik Nelson

Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

ISBN:

Category: Young Adult Nonfiction

Page: 144

View: 458

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 Jim Crow era. This volume also presents modern perspectives on race in twenty-first-century America, with commentators asserting that while progress has been made, racism is still a significant issue.
Juvenile Fiction by Mariama J. Lockington

For Black Girls Like Me

Author: Mariama J. Lockington

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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Category: Juvenile Fiction

Page: 176

View: 216

In this lyrical coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity, Mariama J. Lockington draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark. Makeda June Kirkland is eleven years old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out. When Makeda's family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, she leaves behind her best friend, Lena— the only other adopted black girl she knows— for a new life. In New Mexico, everything is different. At home, Makeda’s sister is too cool to hang out with her anymore and at school, she can’t seem to find one real friend. Through it all, Makeda can’t help but wonder: What would it feel like to grow up with a family that looks like me? Through singing, dreaming, and writing secret messages back and forth with Lena, Makeda might just carve a small place for herself in the world. 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?
Fiction by Chantal D. Pree

Black Like Me

Author: Chantal D. Pree

Publisher:

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Category: Fiction

Page: 26

View: 361

"Black Like Me" is a story about self love. It centers around a young girl who does not like the color black and everything that is linked with black. Black is commonly associated with such negative imagery. Throughout the story an African American boy tries to convince her that she should love black, thus love herself because she is what society calls black and she is beautiful.