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050 00 $aE185.61$b.G8 2011
100 1 $aGriffin, John Howard,$d1920-1980.
245 10 $aBlack like me :$bthe definitive Griffin estate edition, corrected from original manuscripts /$cJohn Howard Griffin ; with a foreword by Studs Terkel ; historic photographs by Don Rutledge ; and an afterword by Robert Bonazzi.
250 $a50th anniversary hardcover ed.
260 $aSan Antonio, Tex. :$bWings Press,$c2011.
300 $axiii, 208 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
505 0 $aPreface, 1961 -- Deep South journey, 1959 -- Photographs / by Don Rutledge -- The aftermath, 1960 -- Epilogue, 1976 -- Beyond Otherness, 1979 -- Afterword, 2011 / Robert Bonazzi.
520 $aPublisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges for this very reason. Regardless of how much progress has been made in eliminating outright racism from American life, Black Like Me endures as a great human and humanitarian document. In our era, when "international" terrorism is most often defined in terms of a single ethnic designation and a single religion, we need to be reminded that America has been blinded by fear and racial intolerance before. As John Lennon wrote, "Living is easy with eyes closed." Black Like Me is the story of a man who opened his eyes, and helped an entire nation to do likewise.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zSouthern States$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xRace relations.
600 10 $aGriffin, John Howard,$d1920-1980.
651 0 $aTexas$vBiography.