John Howard Griffin

Black Like Me

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THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTHOne of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question.-Atlanta Journal & Constitution In the Deep South of the 1950's, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin 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. What happened to John Howard Griffin-from the outside and within himself-as he made his way t… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Griffin, John Howard / Bonazzi, Robert

ISBN: 978-0-451-23421-6
EAN: 9780451234216
Produktnummer: 9402868
Verlag: Penguin Putnam
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.0 cm x B10.8 cm x D1.9 cm 108 g
Gewicht: 108
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.