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Black like me.
LIBRA E185.61 .G8 1961b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980.
- Series:
- Signet book
- A Signet book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Southern States.
- African Americans.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Black or African American.
- Medical Subjects:
- Black or African American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 157 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : New American Library, [©1961]
- Summary:
- Narrated by Ray Childs. "What is it like to experience discrimination based on skin color, something over which one has no control? How else except by becoming a Negro could a white man hope to learn the truth? I decided I would do this." Writer John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on them by another race. Through medication, he dyed his skin dark and left his family and home in Texas to find out. The setting is the Deep South in the late 1950's. What began as scientific research ended up changing his life in every way imaginable. When he decided the real story was in his journals, he published them, and the storm that followed is now part of American history. As performed by Ray Childs, this first-ever recording of Black Like Me will leave each listener deeply affected. John Howard Griffin has done the impossible to bring the full effect of racism to the consciences of the America people. Narrated by Ray ChildsOriginal Publisher: Audio BookshelfRun Time: 07:00:00SKU: 2038Unabridged SKU 2038.
- Notes:
- Winner of the 1962 Saturday Review Anisfeld-Wolf Award.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1962
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is "Fifth Printing, August, 1963".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980. Black like me.
- OCLC:
- 1049166
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