Review: Black Like Me
User Review - Chris - GoodreadsWow. Fascinating read. John Griffin takes medications that, along with sun rays, will turn his skin dark. He uses this newly darkened skin to live life as a black man in the deep south and then write ... Read full review
Review: Black Like Me
User Review - Laura Santoski - GoodreadsReally interesting and sad now, so I can't imagine how it felt to read this at the time. I was glad that Griffin was careful to phrase his experience as what he felt as a white man with black skin, rather than saying "this is how black people feel." Read full review
Review: Black Like Me
User Review - Adrienne Braudis - GoodreadsI am actually in the middle of this book right now, and I believe that everyone should read it. I am aware that it is on many high school reading list, but it should have been on high school reading ... Read full review
Review: Black Like Me
User Review - Adrienne - GoodreadsI am actually in the middle of this book right now, and I believe that everyone should read it. I am aware that it is on many high school reading list, but it should have been on high school reading ... Read full review
Review: Black Like Me
User Review - Jessica - GoodreadsThe true story of a white man's experience undercover as a black man in the south is eye opening. At times shocking and at other times reassuring, this book will take you into the life of an African American living in the Deep South just a few decades ago. Read full review
Review: Black Like Me: 35th Anniversary Edition
User Review - Natasha Gonzales - GoodreadsNatasha Gonzales Columbine High school 12/18/2012 Black Like Me takes place in the late 1950s in the deep south. John Howard Griffin, a white male journalist who works for a black owned magazine,took ... Read full review
Review: Black Like Me
User Review - John Vandyke - GoodreadsHad to read this for government, interesting experiment, but could have been achieved in an article/essay format, not a book. Read full review
Review: Black Like Me
User Review - Litzy - GoodreadsBlack like me was a great but prettu slow book. It is one of those topics that most people really don't talk about which is racism. The theme in this book is answers about racism. A white man really ... Read full review
Review: Black Like Me
User Review - Megan - GoodreadsI would have been at 3 stars but for the 1976 epilogue, which addressed many of the issues I had with the book. Read full review
Review: Black Like Me
User Review - Sarah - GoodreadsGriffin tells of his experiences vividly and simply. He only clunks a few times, when he waxes poetically about being black (um, he's white and pretending to be black). I'm sure this was revolutionary when it was published (1959)! Read full review
