Category: Book Reviews 2015
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Revisiting a Classic from the Civil Rights Era: Black Like Me
The premise of Black Like Me couldn’t be more succinct or effective: a white journalist goes under medical treatments to turn his skin black in order to understand the black experience in the deep south in 1959. This is an astonishing and gripping self-penned account of John Howard Griffin’s decision to try something radical. What’s the…
Author Mark W Sasse 