(-- removed HTML --) Review of, (-- removed HTML --) Black Like Me (-- removed HTML --) by John Howard Griffin (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) Black like me is a book about the author, John Howard Griffin. (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) John Howard Griffin is a white man living in Mansfield, Texas in the year 1959. John is curious to the cause of racial justice and wants to find out what it’s like for other people, but he can’t based on the fact that he is white. Because he is white, he thinks that he can never experience a life as a black man. After thinking about what he can do to change this, he makes a plan. His plan is to turn himself into a black man. He then asked George Levitan the editor of (-- removed HTML --) Sepia (-- removed HTML --) which is a black oriented magazine. …show more content…
John goes out to New Orleans to start his new life as a black man. He finds a friend of his who is black, his name is Sterling Williams. Then John will start a dermatological regimen of exposure to ultraviolet light, oral medication, and skin dyes to successfully turn himself black. During his time as a black man he is obviously expecting racism to be occurring in his life, but he is very surprised by how badly the racism goes and how prejudiced anyone can really be. It even gets to the point where he tries to temporarily wash off the blackness on himself so that he can go to a white bar and use the bathroom in there. The main lesson of the book is to make an announcement to show how black people were treated in the 1960’s, but the book is trying to tell the reader what it’s like as a black person living in the 1960’s. This is shown throughout the book where he goes to places, such as the ‘ghetto’ and compares it to what a white-man neighborhood would look like. The way he experiences more racism than expected is how he hears words like, ‘nigger’ around every street