Black Like Me
Submitted by ladybird87 on December 17, 2011
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Black Like Me
The major character in the book is the author himself. He is a sincere and sensitive white journalist from Texas. A specialist in race issues, he is persistently haunted by the idea of what it is like to be a Negro in a land where the Negro is shoved down. He begins a scientific research, carefully compiling data for analysis on the racial question, yet he admits that this process does not really probe the changes wrought to the heart and body and mind of the Negro as a result of the crude and cruel white racism practiced on him. He decides to reveal racism in all its rawness, how men not only destroy other men but in the process destroy themselves as well. Griffin is not just sensitive...
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