Black Like Me

Why can't Griffin write to his wife?

Approximately between pages 51-75

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Griffin has diguised himself and for all intents and purposes was living as a black man.... something that kept him from writing to his "white" wife, almost as if to write her meant he was doing something wrong.... forbidden.

"The observing self," he recalled, "saw the Negro write 'Darling' to a white woman. The chains of my blackness would not allow me to go on."

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