The Undercover Experiment of John Howard Griffin

The dermatologist said he will take months to achieve the desired skin tone. He was dissatisfied with this option and asked if there was a way to quickly change his skin pigmentation. It was unreasonable for the doctor to try, but then he warned his friend that he was performing a secret mission and he would disappear without notice. The problem is that he needs to find African Americans who are willing to adopt the change and complete the change. Within a week, he began to vomit and had fierce anxiety.

This article is a review of John Howard Griffin's "Black Like Me" book. This book is the story of his journey through a deep south as a white boy (John Howard Griffin) and a black man. He traveled from New Orleans to Alabama and called for a true understanding of this issue and the reality of being black in the deep part of the South. Through medicine, thanks to flash photography ability to adapt to environmental changes, and through friends' support, he managed to become a real black man (in his heart). Griffin was impressed by the experience and was surprised by the fact that the belief changed to reality and turned out to be wrong. After his experiments, he had problems with his own race. John Griffin has found their true color to some people

John Howard Griffin after the transition. Even though he was ready for this possibility with isolation of experiments, the corrosive action of danger and despair surprised Griffin, and made him a different person. In addition to fear and frustration, his transformation pushed him to feel lonely from the United States he thought he knew. He is also surprised by the astounding power that other people bring to his expectations for his behavior, and he is often surprised by what he is obedient and defeated he hears from his own mouth. Most importantly, he is full of anger, afraid of the restraint of the people around him, they must always be this way.

At the end of 1959, John Howard Griffin went to a friend's house in New Orleans, Louisiana. There, under the care of a dermatologist, Griffin received high-dose oral anti-pyrexia methoxacin treatment and was used under ultraviolet radiation for up to 15 hours a day. When he died as an African American, Griffin began a six week trip in the south. Don Rutledge traveled with him to record the experience of the photograph. During his travel he adheres to the rules of not changing his name or changing his identity and asking himself what he is, what he is doing, he is truth I will tell you. First, he decided to speak as much as possible about whether he could easily move to the social environment of the black people in the south of the United States. He is accustomed to getting a "hatred line of sight" from Caucasians everywhere.