Black Like Me
Publisher
Wings Press
Publication Year
2010
ISBN
9780451234216
Pages
176 pages
Genre
biography
Format
full length
Item Type
Nonfiction
Annotation
The Deep South of the late 1950's was another country: a land of lynchings, segregated lunch counters, whites-only restrooms, and a color line etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. White journalist John Howard Griffin, working for the black-owned magazine Sepia, decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man.
Grade Level
9-12
Lexile Measure
990L
Diversity Topics
Racial Diversity; Race discrimination; racism; prejudice
Main Character
adult male
Race/Ethnicities
Black / White
Awards
Public Library Catalog, Eleventh Edition, 1999
Public Library Catalog, Ninth Edition, 1989
Public Library Catalog, Seventh Edition, 1978
Public Library Catalog, Tenth Edition, 1994
Public Library Catalog, Twelfth Edition, 2004
Senior High School Library Catalog, Fifteenth Edition, 1997
Senior High School Library Catalog, Sixteenth Edition, 2002
Keywords
race relations; social commentary; medical skin darkening; Civil Rights Movement; Deep South; journalism; social experiment
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Griffin, John Howard, "Black Like Me" (2010). Diverse Families. 1548.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1548