John Howard Griffin

Black Like Me

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In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist Griffin decided to cross the color 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. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-451-20864-4
EAN: 9780451208644
Produktnummer: 19460831
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.4 cm x D1.4 cm 167 g
Gewicht: 167
Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor

John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) is known internationally as the author of two novels, Nuni and The Devil Rides Outside, five books and monographs on racism in addition to Black Like Me, a biography of Thomas Merton, three collections of photography, a volume of journals, two historical works on Texas, a musicological study, and The John Howard Reader. Born in Dallas, Texas, and educated in France, he served in the U.S. Air Force in the South Pacific, where an injury he received during a Japanese bombardment eventually resulted in the complete loss of his sight. In the 1950´s he converted to Catholicism, married, and raised a family. In 1957, (after ten years of blindness) he miraculously regained his sight.