Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Black Like Me
Book Review: best book i ever read
Summary: 5 Stars
black like me is my all time favorite book. when i was in fifth grade, my teacher recomended it to me. ever since he gave me his copy because i like it so much, i have read the book over eight times. i have an original copy, and every time i see a copy of it, i buy it and give it as a gift. it is a wonderful work of art. being a wealthy white girl, always interested and totally apposed to slavery, this book helped me to really see how people just like me could be so vulgar, and dusgusting. i really recomend you read this book, if you have not. it is a wonderfully true story.Book Review: A brilliant classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am 16 years old and needed to do a book review on a certian topic. My mum was going to give away a pile of old books that she had had ever since she was 10. I picked up Black Like Me and stated reading it. I couldn't put the book down for a second! It made me feel ashamed to be a "white" person and relise just how cruel the human race can be. I have been researching the topic and discovering many terrible things "whites" did - and still do sometimes - to native people, immigrants, even our neighbours.Book Review: One of the most important works of our time
Summary: 5 Stars
This book carries such a potent message that it should be compulsive reading for all. Last year I studied Race Relations: apartheid in South Africa and segregation in America, as part of my GCSE History syllabus and happened upon this book whilst browsing in the school library during an English lesson. From the moment I read the synopsis, I could not put it down. It's the true story of a white man who disguises himself as a black man and travels to the Deep South in the 1950s in order to discover what kind of life a black really lives in a place where racial hatred runs so deep. The results are incredible, heart-wrenching, and deeply disturbing. It inspires self-questioning. It made me wonder: if one can only learn of oneself by how he reacts to others and others react to him, then surely as other's perceptions of him change in reponse to a superficial outward characteristic such as skin colour, his inward sense or perception of self must also change, thus altering the essence of his soul and the nature of his self knowledge. Griffin found himself referring to blacks as 'we' and 'us', and he experienced a frightening identity crisis; after all, when you look black and others respond to you as black and either alienate or integrate you according to your blackness, the only thing preventing you from being black is your (literal) underlying whiteness! It poses questions about society, social groupings and appearances, and ultimately, how the fragile soul can be damaged or altered as a result of the reactions to the body it occupies. After all, does one's soul have a colour?Book Review: Thought provoking, and consciousness raising.
Summary: 5 Stars
I first read this book almost 15 years ago, following studying an extract in an English class school. It was and remains one of the most consciousness raising books I've ever read, and whilst the times which inspired it are gone, it is still relevant today because of the overall message that perception changes everything.Book Review: Read 27 years ago; still the most meaningful book I've read
Summary: 1 Stars
In High School in Canada this book was one of the required reading books. It gripped me then but over the past 27 years, it has become more and more meaningful. I am now a Learning Support Assistant at a Middle School in England and a few weeks ago, during Literacy Hour, the teacher asked the children if they could remember a book which had had a significant impact on them...I immediately thought of Black Like Me...I couldn't remember the author...but I immediately wished that it could be compulsory reading now. Maybe it would have a positive affect on children not only with regard to current day racisim, but also on the subject of bullying in its many disguises!