{"product_id":"black-like-me-isbn-9780451234216","title":"Black Like Me","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question.”—\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal \u0026amp; Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e What happened to John Howard Griffin—from the outside and within himself—as he made his way through the segregated Deep South is recorded in this searing work of nonfiction. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity every American must read.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an Epilogue by the author \u003cbr\u003eand an Afterword by Robert Bonazzi\u003c\/b\u003e“Essential reading…a social document of the first order, providing material absolutely unavailable elsewhere with such authenticity that it cannot be dismissed.”—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A stinging indictment of thoughtless, needless inhumanity. No one can read it without suffering.”—\u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBlack Like Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving and troubling book written by an accomplished novelist. It is a scathing indictment of our society.”—\u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Howard Griffin\u003c\/b\u003e (1920-1980) is known internationally as the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eNuni\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Devil Rides Outside\u003c\/i\u003e, five books and monographs on racism in addition to \u003ci\u003eBlack Like Me\u003c\/i\u003e, a biography of Thomas Merton, three collections of photography, a volume of journals, two historical works on Texas, a musicological study, and \u003ci\u003eThe John Howard Reader\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.","brand":"Berkley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302109728997,"sku":"NP9780451234216","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780451234216.jpg?v=1767722703","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/black-like-me-isbn-9780451234216","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}