{"product_id":"black-like-me-9780916727680","title":"Black Like Me","description":"On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own--he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discovery was captured in journal entries, arguably the single most important documentation of 20th-century American racism ever written. More than 50 years later, this newly edited edition--which is based on the original manuscript and includes a new design and added afterword--gives fresh life to what is still considered a \"contemporary book.\" The story that earned respect from civil rights leaders and death threats from many others endures today as one of the great human--and humanitarian--documents of the era. In this new century, when terrorism is too often defined in terms of a single ethnic designation or religion, and the first black president of the United States is subject to hateful slurs, this record serves as a reminder that America has been blinded by fear and racial intolerance before. This is the story of a man who opened his eyes and helped an entire nation to do likewise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Howard Griffin was a musicologist who served, and was injured, in the Air Force during World War II. Blind for a decade, Griffin became an acclaimed novelist and essayist and when his sight returned, almost miraculously, he became a remarkable portrait photographer. Following his cross-racial exploration in the South, he was personally vilified, hanged in effigy in his hometown, threatened with death, and severely beaten by the Klu Klux Klan. Respected internationally as a human rights activist, he worked with major Civil Rights leaders throughout the era, taught at the University of Peace, and delivered more than a 1,200 lectures in America and abroad. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Devil Rides Outside\u003c\/i\u003e and posthumous works such as \u003ci\u003ePrison of Culture: Beyond Black Like Me.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Bonazzi\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a widely published writer and the author of \u003ci\u003eLiving the Borrowed Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMaestro of Solitude: Poems and Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Scribbling Cure: Poems and Prose Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the literary executor for the estate of John Howard Griffin. He lives in San Antonio, Texas. \u003cstrong\u003eStuds Terkel was a cultural commentator, columnist, interviewer, and author of many books on American history and culture, including \u003ci\u003eTouch and Go: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Wings Press (TX)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50704893739282,"sku":"9780916727680","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8f6c6b30-2c86-4574-b05a-6e71a1269892.jpg?v=1734481837","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-like-me-9780916727680","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}