Black Like Me Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from NeitherSparky

I just got done reading this one for the first time since high school, where it was required reading. The scene that always stuck in my mind from my first reading was the poor black mother, after serving her six children slices of the Milky Way bars Griffin has given them, wiping some chocolatey ...

from Cecrow

This is a non-fiction work detailing the experiences of a middle-aged white man who posed convincingly as a black man in the southern United States, at the dawn of the civil rights movement. Prior to reading this, I'd seen an Oprah episode where a young white man named Josh Solomon who was inspir...

from Nyota24

This was not assigned reading for me (I think it was a little too close to home for my high school), but I think it should be assigned reading for high school. Griffin really was taking his life into his own hands. I thought the most remarkable part of the story was the comfort with which some So...

from andyray

Why does this book earn five stars? Because it was the kickoff book for what we of the 1960s called "the revolution" of the civil rights movement. Griffin writes concisely and laterally about what it feels to be a white man becoming black in the Deep South and the ways that whikte society keep th...

from Willow1972

This is a startling, disturbing and unforgettable book. The closest you can come to walking in another's shoes. Griffin, a white man, darkens his skin and disguises himself to experience life as a black man in the deep South in the late 1950's.His experiences are not just eye opening, but deeply ...