Black Like Me John Howard Griffin

It is well-known that throughout history, people oppressed each other because of differences amongst themselves. The most recent situation where this one sees this is in the 1950s and 1960s, where black people treated unequally simply because...

In John Howard Griffin’s controversial 1962 memoir Black Like Me, white-man Griffin takes an anthropological and personal journey, posing as a black man in the deep south in an attempt to understand the black experience. Equal parts personal...

John Howard Griffin’s memoir Black Like Me attempts to examine the exclusively physical transformation of a man from white to black. Griffin seeks to more wholly understand racial issues in the 1950s by altering his skin color and “nothing else”....