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New edition with a foreword by Bernardine Evaristo

A brutal record of segregated America … essential reading Guardian

An anti-racist classic Bernardine Evaristo

In the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin travelled across the Deep South of the United States disguised as a working-class black man. Black Like Me is Griffin s own account of his journey.
Published in book form two years later it sold over five million copies, revealed to a white audience the daily experience of racism and became one of the best-known accounts of racial injustice in Jim Crow-era America. Embraced by some and fiercely criticised by others, its legacy sixty years on remains problematic, but Black Like Me nevertheless stands as a fascinating document of its times.

There is a saying among Negroes that no white man, no matter how hard he tries, can really understand what it s like to be black in America. John Howard Griffin has come closer to this understanding than any white man that I know. Louis Lomax, Saturday Review

If it was a frightening experience for him as nothing but a make-believe Negro for sixty-six days, then you think about what real Negroes in America have gone through for 400 years. Malcolm X