Black Like Me

• Author : John Howard Griffin
• Publisher : Wings Press
• Release Date : 2006-04-01
• ISBN : 9781609401085

This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.

• Author : John Howard Griffin
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1964
• ISBN : 0987654321XXX

• Author : Mariama J. Lockington
• Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Release Date : 2019-07-30
• ISBN : 9780374308063

In this lyrical coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity, Mariama J. Lockington draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark. Makeda June Kirkland is eleven years old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out. When Makeda's family

• Author : Robert Bonazzi
• Publisher : Wings Press
• Release Date : 2010-10
• ISBN : 9781609401351

First published by Orbis Books in 1997,Man in the Mirrortells the story behindBlack Like Me, a book that astonished America upon its publication in 1961, and remains an American classic 50 years later. In 1959 a white writer darkened his skin and passed for a time as a "Negro" in the Deep South. John Howard Griffin was that writer, and his bookBlack Like Meswiftly became a national sensation. Few readers know of the extraordinary journey that led to Griffin's risky "experiment"—the culmination

• Author : Tim Wise,Kevin Myers
• Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
• Release Date : 2010-10-29
• ISBN : 9781458780911

Flipping John Howard Griffin's classic Black Like Me, and extending Noel Ignatiev's How The Irish Became White into the present-day, Wise explores the meanings and consequences of whiteness, and discusses the ways in which racial privilege can harm not just people of color, but also whites. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable and yet scholarly; analytical and yet accessible.

• Author : Spencer Borisoff,Len Barry,Leonard Borisoff,Spencer Barry
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2008-05-01
• ISBN : 1904408346

This is a heartwarming, ever-evolving story about a socially transplanted Caucasian brother and sister thrust by circumstance into life and love in the hood. It is the joy of acceptance and the pain of rejection finally told from the opposite perspective of black Americans being denied assimilation into white society. It is the "OC" inside out, blended with Spike Lee's Jungle Fever upside down, and a kinder, warmer Eminem's 8-Mile. It is a story whose time has finally come. Its

• Author : Linwood Barclay
• Publisher : Doubleday Canada
• Release Date : 2013-08-06
• ISBN : 9780385669603

It's been two months since private investigator Cal Weaver's teenage son, Scott, died in a tragic drug-related accident. Ever since, he and his wife have drifted apart, fracturing a once-normal life. Cal is mired in grief he can't move past. And maybe that has clouded his judgment. Because he made a grave mistake driving home on a very rainy night. A drenched young girl tapped on his window as he sat at a stoplight and asked for a ride. And

• Author : John Griffin
• Publisher : Wings Press
• Release Date : 2011-10-01
• ISBN : 9781609401474

The companion volume to the 50th-anniversary edition of Black Like Me, this book features John Howard Griffin’s later writings on racism and spirituality. Conveying a progressive evolution in thinking, it further explores Griffin’s ethical stand in the human rights struggle and nonviolent pursuit of equality—a view he shared with greats such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Merton. Enlightening and forthright, this record also focuses on Griffin’s spiritual grounding in the Catholic monastic tradition,