There were times it was terrifying. I could not, and did not, read it in one sitting, yet at the same time, there were times, I could not put it down. I feel that many of the issues being confronted in are still relevant today. Griffin was concerned that a divide was occurring among the people. One item that seemed to affect Mr. Griffin quite a bit was having easy access to bathrooms.
That made me reflect upon the recent executive order issued by the President about the use of bathrooms at schools. The issue is not identical but can be viewed, if one chooses, from this historical perspective. I read this book on Kindle and listened to an audiobook narration at the same time.
The narration was by Ray Childs. His work was excellent. I spent very little for the extra audiobook and it was well worth it to me. The reason I state that is there is important information on the Kindle, at the end, that I also felt was important that is not included on the audiobook. I noticed at times there were conversations that appear in quotation marks, as though the author had either recorded the conversations word for word, or had memorized them word for word.
Of this I am skeptical. However the conversations purported to convey the true inner feelings of African Americans, and as such I feel they are important, of course. However, it would also be a convenient device for the author to extol his own philisophical positions.
The were other times that I felt the same device was being used to convey the unspoken thoughts of white people. A white person would be quoted as saying something, frankly evil but preposterous, that the author would seemingly have no way of recording word for word.
This did not really diminish the value of this book to me; it provided much fuel for thought. But I did feel there was a disingenuous aspect to this work that bothered me somewhat.
Maybe I am wrong. Before long a car with two young white boys picked me up. I quickly saw that they were, like many of their generation, kinder than the older ones. They drove me to a small town bus station where I could catch a bus.
I bought a ticket to Montgomery and went to sit outside on the curb where other Negro passengers gathered. Many Negroes walked through the streets. Their glances were kind and communicative, as though all of us shared some common secret. As I sat in the sunlight, a great heaviness came over me. I went inside to the Negro rest room, splashed cold water on my face and brushed my teeth.
Then I brought out my hand mirror and inspected myself. I had been a Negro more than three weeks and it no longer shocked me to see the stranger in the mirror. My hair had grown to a heavy fuzz, my. The first edition of the novel was published in January 1st , and was written by John Howard Griffin. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this non fiction, history story are ,. The book has been awarded with Anisfield-Wolf Book Award , and many others.
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Particularly compelling is Strausbaugh's eagerness to tackle blackface-a strange, often scandalous, and now taboo entertainment.
Although blackface performance came to be denounced as purely racist mockery, and shamefacedly erased from most modern accounts of American cultural history, Black Like You shows that the impact of blackface on American culture was deep and long-lasting. Its influence can be seen in rock and hiphop; in vaudeville, Broadway, and gay drag performances; in Mark Twain and "gangsta lit"; in the earliest filmstrips and the movie White Chicks; on radio and television; in advertising and product marketing; and even in the way Americans speak.
Strausbaugh enlivens themes that are rarely discussed in public, let alone with such candor and vision: - American culture neither conforms to knee-jerk racism nor to knee-jerk political correctness. It is neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel. The power of blackface to engender mortification and rage in Americans to this day is reason enough to examine what it tells us about our culture and ourselves.
Its impact and descendants-including Black performers in "whiteface"-can be seen all around us today. When a black family moves to an all-white neighborhood, prejudice rears its ugly head as the white adults behave rudely and children's friendships break up.
This book brings together authors from different institutions and perspectives and from researchers specialising in different aspects of the experiences of the African Diaspora from Latin America. It creates an overview of the complexities of the lives of Black people over various periods of history, as they struggled to build lives away from Africa in societies that, in general, denied them the basic right of fully belonging, such as the right of fully belonging in the countries where, by choice or force of circumstance, they lived.
Another Black Like Me thus presents a few notable scenes from the long history of Blacks in Latin America: as runaway slaves seen through the official documentation denouncing as illegal those who resisted captivity; through the memoirs of a slave who still dreamt of his homeland; reflections on the status of Black women; demands for citizenship and kinship by Black immigrants; the fantasies of Blacks in the United States about the lives of Blacks in Brazil; a case study of some of those who returned to Africa and had to build a new identity based on their experiences as slaves; and the abstract representations of race and color in the Caribbean.
All of these provide the reader with a glimpse of complex phenomena that, though they cannot be generalized in a single definition of blackness in Latin America, share the common element of living in societies where the definition of blackness was flexible, there were no laws of racial segregation, and where the culture on one hand tolerates miscegenation, and on the other denies full recognition of rights to Blacks.
Between and , Rich Benjamin, a journalist-adventurer, packed his bags and embarked on a 26,mile journey throughout the heart of white America, to some of the fastest-growing and whitest locales in our nation. By , whites will no longer be the American majority. As immigrant populations--largely people of color--increase in cities and suburbs, more and more whites are moving to small towns and exurban areas that are predominately, even extremely, white.
Rich Benjamin calls these enclaves "Whitopias" pronounced: "White-o-pias". His journey to unlock the mysteries of Whitopias took him from a three-day white separatist retreat with links to Aryan Nations in North Idaho to the inner sanctum of George W.
Bush's White House--and many points in between. And to learn what makes Whitopias tick, and why and how they are growing, he lived in three of them in Georgia, Idaho, and Utah for several months apiece. A compelling raconteur, bon vivant, and scholar, Benjamin reveals what Whitopias are like and explores the urgent social and political implications of this startling phenomenon.
The glow of Barack Obama's historic election cannot obscure the racial and economic segregation still vexing America. Obama's presidency has actually raised the stakes in a battle royale between two versions of America: one that is broadly comfortable with diversity yet residentially segregated ObamaNation and one that does not mind a little ethnic food or a few mariachi dancers--as long as these trends do not overwhelm a white dominant culture Whitopia.
After John Howard Griffin's escape from Nazi-occupied France, he was shipped to the South Pacific, where he was stationed as an isolated observer in the Solomon Islands.
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