Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Black Like Me
Book Review: This book is AMAZING
Summary: 5 Stars
To really, honestly, see the world through another person's eyes is something that's incredibely rare and is difficult to do. Griffin darkened his skin and changed his life to be able to see what it was really like being a black man in the segregated South. The things he heard, felt, and saw are things that will forever be impressed upon my mind as a reader. The way he told his story was very simple and straightforward, which almost seems to bring the messages home even harder. You can easily see him struggling with concepts that were everyday for the people he encountered: segregated restrooms, segregated water fountains, sneering, baiting, hatred, and disdain. If this book doesn't make you want to cry, then you don't have a pulse.Book Review: To be black in the south
Summary: 3 Stars
Journalist John Howard Griffin changed the color of his skin to see what life in the deep south was like for a black man in the pre-civil rights era. There are 100 other reviews here, so I will bring up 2 points I think others missed, as not to repeat the conversation.
1: I would have like to see more discussion, perhaps in the epilogue or prologue, on the medication and ointments that Griffin used. How could these products be safe! Where there after effects?
2. Sometimes the book comes across as an endorsement of Catholicism. Griffin often argues that blacks were more accepted in his view in Catholic communities in America. Although I disagree with this argument, as evidenced by Catholic communities in New York and Boston.
Book Review: amazing tale that is as relevant now as it was then
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an amazing story of a white man who darkened his skin and traveled the deep south as a black man, in a time of segregation and other racial unrest.
This is an amazing tale and one that is as relevant today as it was when it was written. The racism of today's world might not be as open as accepted, but it's still there and, like it or not, all of us are judging people all the time. Because of this, I think there are some amazing lessons within the pages of this book, which will challenge your thinking and make you reevaluate the way you deal with people.
Would love to see somebody do this today. I think it would make an excellent companion to how things have (or haven't) changed.
Book Review: an Urban Legend of course. But I admire what the guy did
Summary: 1 Stars
No such darkening procedure. It was a fictional tale that would reverberate in white people circles because, of course, it was written by one of them, i.e., a white guy. DOnt get me wrong. I admire him for how he contributed to Black American society and rights, but the secret is, that it was just a legend that had remarkable positive results. If you believed the tale, you are a SUKA!!!!Book Review: oh wow this is unforgettable!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was recommended to me, and i bought it and it sat on my shelf for a time. I got it down the other day and started reading and could not put it down. It was amazing.
I was brought back to so many memories of the deep south and the attitudes, (that still are now today) prevailing in that time.
I admire this man's courage so much. I despaired at the attitudes the white people had tword him. The look, the tone of voice, the lonliness.
When he looks into the mirror for the first time, he is greeted by, himself yet a stranger.
To walk in another man's shoes is indeed a gift of God, and to be able to have compassion for that experiance is great.
This will be one of my fave. books along with Watership Down and several others i have read over and over again.
This would be a book you could read over again and get more and more from.
Amazing book.