Black Like Me
Black Like Me is a nonfiction book in which a white reporter darkens his skin with medication and travels through the American South as a Black man. Written in diary form, it conveys open discrimination, daily humiliation, and the reality of segregation together with the writer's own unease.
Work Information
A reportage that crosses the color line in order to describe the lived reality of discrimination firsthand.
By giving up the position of detached observer and placing himself inside the machinery of discrimination, Griffin turns violence into lived experience. Black Like Me combines narrative force with the value of a social-historical testimony, which is why it has continued to be read for so long.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Berkley
- Published
- 2010-10-20
- Pages
- 208 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 10.8 x 1.4 x 19.1 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780451234216
- ISBN-10
- 0451234219
- Price
- 2471 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/History/Americas/United States/20th Century
THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH “One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question.”— Atlanta Journal & Constitution In the Deep South of the 1950’s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. What happened to John Howard Griffin—from the outside and within himself—as he made his way through the segregated Deep South is recorded in this searing work of nonfiction. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity every American must read. With an Epilogue by the author and an Afterword by Robert Bonazzi
John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) is known internationally as the author of two novels, Nuni and The Devil Rides Outside , five books and monographs on racism in addition to Black Like Me , a biography of Thomas Merton, three collections of photography, a volume of journals, two historical works on Texas, a musicological study, and The John Howard Reader . Born in Dallas, Texas, and educated in France, he served in the U.S. Air Force in the South Pacific, where an injury he received during a Japanese bombardment eventually resulted in the complete loss of his sight. In the 1950's he converted to Catholicism, married, and raised a family. In 1957, (after ten years of blindness) he miraculously regained his sight.
Reviews
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living as a black in the Deep South
著者は、白人のジャーナリストです。アメリカで、特に南部で激しかった人種差別に疑問を持った彼は、黒人がどんな思いで生きているかを知るには、黒人となって南部の生活を体験するしかないという結論に達し、白人の特権を捨ててしばし黒人となる決意をします。 皮膚科に行き、数日かけて薬物と紫外線照射で肌を黒くし、南部を旅します。 彼の旅はルイジアナはニュー・オリンズから始まり、ミシシッピ、アラバマ、ジョージアはアトランタへと続きます。彼の日記から、南部の黒人が日々体験する差別、社会的抑圧、Hate Stareと彼がいう、白人からそそがれる、まるで害虫でも見るかのような視線、それらに日々さらされることによって、生まれてくる絶望感…読んでいて、胸が苦しくなります。 当時の南部の、Separate but equalが、どんなに偽りかということも、不平等な施設のありようから見えてきます。 著者が黒人として、白人と交わす会話もとても興味深いです。白人著者にとってはとてもNiceだった人たちが、肌の色が黒いというだけで、決して同じ白人には見せない一面を見せてくるのです。 ショッキングな内容もさることながら、ジャーナリストとしての彼の観察力にも驚かせられます。アメリカの人種差別の歴史に興味がある方には必読です。
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日本では忘れられた名作
１９６０年代に邦訳「夜のように黒く」として出版されていた作品です。 白人の作家が、色素欠乏症の治療薬を飲んで一時的に肌の色を黒くし、アメリカ南部を旅したときの恐怖体験を綴ったノンフィクション作品。
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新品なのに傷が目立つ
新品を注文しましたが、裏表紙に目立つ傷が3箇所ありました。
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The impact of racism on a group of people.
A very interesting read. It highlights the deep, negative impact that racism has on the psyche. Tragic but people need to be aware of the devastating impact of racism on a whole group of people.
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VERY informative about what it is to be a Black man from a White man who darkened his skin to be Black
Every Black man should read this book. If you think you know how bad things really were racially in the South, you should read this book. Very informative, sad, infuriating, eye-opening, tragic, depressing, and a whole lot of other emotions will you experience when you read this. I was born in the 1950s in South Carolina. I escaped all that Mr. John Howard Griffin wrote before I was born. He has my gratitude and Thanks for braving what he did to write this book.
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Must read
This book is a bit different. It's not fiction but a real experience of a journalist. Mr.Griffin changed his skin color with the help of medicine to black to see how it is like to be black.
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Impacting
This book will certainly change some lives, and it may just change your perspective on what it was like for the black community at the height of segregation in the Southern Belt of the US. Told from the perspective of a journalist who goes undercover as a black man to obtain a real account of their lives, you get taken into a world previously unknown that showcases the extent to which the white community were uneducated about racial differences, the ignorance and assumptions they made, and the struggle black individuals faced on a daily basis. I bought this book as teaching material for a book discussion class, as I can say that it has made a difference in at least one of their lives for the better. Absolutely worth the read!!
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a lire impérativement
C'est génial en français le titre est dans la peau d'un noir c'est un chef d'oeuvre...on rit on se pose des tas de questions