- African Americans, Afro-American churches, Afro-Americans, Biography
Publisher'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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- John Howard Griffin
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 189
- Publisher
- NAL Trade, Souvenir Press Ltd, Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- English, mar
- ISBN
- 9780974171111
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On Open Library, 21 have read it and 291 want to.
“For years the idea had haunted me, and that night it returned more insistently than ever.”
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