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I recommend this book to students all the time, and they love this story.
I appreciate and respect this work for what it was in its time. I was appalled to learn of certain aspects of his experience, though others were unfortunately not a shock to me.
Wonderful book--and even more relevant now than when it was originally written.
Fascinating book. I can't believe this is not something that everyone should read in school. That being said, while it's illuminating to what things were like back in the 60s (and probably still like on some parts of the country), I found myself unsurprised by most of it.
I read this when I was in High School in the 70's in New England and as a teen found it eye opening. I may have to reread it.
Amazing book from the late 1950s. John Howard Griffin took a medicine that changed the pigment of his skin and then traveled to the Deep South to experience life as a black man. His story of that time will change your perspective, help you to think about race in a different way, and learn about history along the way.
This book helps you see life through another's eyes and see that we are all people who deserve respect and dignity - no matter the color of our skin.
This book helps you see life through another's eyes and see that we are all people who deserve respect and dignity - no matter the color of our skin.
i love this book. At times it does drag on but not too much.
Originally I was conflicted with the idea of this book. A white man telling us how hard it is to be a black man. I thought about it and wondered what he could say that a black man couldn't? Why not just read (or listen) to a book by a black man on this topic. Then I realized the experiment itself is why. John Howard Griffin knows what it is like to be a white man and doing this experiment explained exactly what is different and how. He isn't just explaining the difficulties of being black, he is also explaining how it differs from what he has experienced. After realizing this, I got into the book and I have to say, it opened my eyes to realize the injustices and differences are many and in ways I never could have imagined. I would add this to your list as a must read.
An eye opening book of a first hand account of someone going "under cover" as a black man in the south in the 50s. It is pretty upsetting to know that it had to take something like this to get a lot of attention (not to say that other efforts were not successful because they obviously were, but this was such a big deal because of his position and connections to get his story out) of the ramifications of racism in the reconstruction era and into the Civil Rights movement.
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
tense
medium-paced