Black Like Me (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: John Howard Griffin
- First Published: 1961
- Time of Work: 1959–1960
- Setting: New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Texas
- Principal Characters: John Howard Griffin
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, Segregation or integration, Journalism or journalists, Racism, Race, South or Southerners, Autobiography
- Locales: New Orleans, LA, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Texas
Form and Content
John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me is a series of thirty-nine journal entries, which range from less than a page to thirty-three pages in length. His first entry was made on October 28, 1959, and his final entry on August 17, 1960. The book can be conveniently divided into three sections. The first consists of nine entries, made between October 28 and November 14. In this section, Griffin describes his initial idea to pass as an African American, his funding by Sepia (an African-American magazine with wide circulation in the South), and the...
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