Black Like Me
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Black Like Me is a 1961 nonfiction book by John Howard Griffin that chronicles his journey through the racially segregated American South while passing as a Black man to expose the realities of racism.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Black Like Me canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nonfiction book
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social commentary ⓘ |
| adaptationType | feature film ⓘ |
| author | John Howard Griffin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | John Howard Griffin's real-life experiences ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | widely discussed and controversial at time of publication ⓘ |
| depicts |
economic exploitation of Black communities
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everyday discrimination against Black Americans ⓘ segregated public facilities ⓘ threats and violence against Black people ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
empathy
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identity ⓘ social justice ⓘ systemic racism ⓘ white privilege ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | newspaper series ⓘ |
| firstSerializedIn | Sepia magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
journalism
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memoir ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ race relations literature ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Black Like Me (1964 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | civil rights discourse in the United States ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | classic of American civil rights literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
African American experience
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Jim Crow South NERFINISHED ⓘ racial segregation in the United States ⓘ racism in the United States ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| methodDescribed | skin darkening to pass as Black ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor | firsthand account of a white man passing as Black in the Jim Crow South ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationType | book ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1961 ⓘ |
| publisher | Houghton Mifflin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Alabama
NERFINISHED
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American South NERFINISHED ⓘ Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general readership ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
1959
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Jim Crow era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn | educational curricula on race and civil rights ⓘ |
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