Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffinliterary work· published 1961
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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 for this 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.
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Black Like Me was adapted into a 1964 film.
Black Like Me1964 · film · 105 min · dir. Carl Lerner · IMDb ↗IMDb6.6Black Like Me is the true account of journalist and author John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
