Black Like Me: A Cultural Book Report

John Howard Griffin is a journalist and expert on ethnic issues. After publication, he became a major supporter of the civil rights movement and intensely promoted the racial situation of the Shatong legislation. When published in 1960, he was a middle-aged man living in Mansfield, Texas. He wondered whether Southern Caucasians are racists against the blacks in the south or whether they really judged people based on their personality. For this reason, he felt that they encouraged me to write black across the color lines like me.

As a report of the book, I read John Howard Griffin 's "Black Like Me" book. The story was surrounded by white people who decided to go to the southern part of the deep sea as blacks in 1959, trying to understand what actually happened there. Man, John Griffin, recorded his trip from start to finish with an effort to end apartheid. For seven weeks he lived in the meantime and experienced the fear of blacks living there. He soon knew that he no longer had the same privilege as a white man.

Griffin is the author of the non - fiction book "Black Like Me" which is his real record that he became blacks deep inside the southern part of America in the 1950 's. In the preface, Mr. Griffin pointed out "... what is the feeling of becoming a black person in a place that annoys blacks?" He changed his appearance to a black man by staining the epidermis. "... the double problem of blacks, firstly, discrimination against him Secondly, he is discriminating against himself, he despises his darkness related to pain They are part of the darkness that he felt so painful. "