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Author : John Howard Griffin
Release : 1976
Genre : African Americans
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Black Like Me by : John Howard Griffin
Download or read book Black Like Me written by John Howard Griffin. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.
Author : John Howard Griffin
Release : 1996
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 035/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Black Like Me by : John Howard Griffin
Download or read book Black Like Me written by John Howard Griffin. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.
Author : Mariama J. Lockington
Release : 2019-07-30
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 063/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis For Black Girls Like Me by : Mariama J. Lockington
Download or read book For Black Girls Like Me written by Mariama J. Lockington. This book was released on 2019-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lyrical coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity, Mariama J. Lockington draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark. Makeda June Kirkland is eleven years old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out. When Makeda's family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, she leaves behind her best friend, Lena— the only other adopted black girl she knows— for a new life. In New Mexico, everything is different. At home, Makeda’s sister is too cool to hang out with her anymore and at school, she can’t seem to find one real friend. Through it all, Makeda can’t help but wonder: What would it feel like to grow up with a family that looks like me? Through singing, dreaming, and writing secret messages back and forth with Lena, Makeda might just carve a small place for herself in the world. For Black Girls Like Me is for anyone who has ever asked themselves: How do you figure out where you are going if you don’t know where you came from?
Author : John Strausbaugh
Release : 2007-08-16
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 050/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Black Like You by : John Strausbaugh
Download or read book Black Like You written by John Strausbaugh. This book was released on 2007-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refreshingly clearheaded and taboo-breaking look at race relations reveals that American culture is neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel. Black Like You is an erudite and entertaining exploration of race relations in American popular culture. 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 2004 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. - No history is best forgotten, however uncomfortable it may be to remember. 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. - Blackface is still alive. Its impact and descendants-including Black performers in "whiteface"-can be seen all around us today.
Author : Tim Wise
Release : 2010-10-29
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 910/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis White Like Me by : Tim Wise
Download or read book White Like Me written by Tim Wise. This book was released on 2010-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flipping John Howard Griffin's classic Black Like Me, and extending Noel Ignatiev's How The Irish Became White into the present-day, Wise explores the meanings and consequences of whiteness, and discusses the ways in which racial privilege can harm not just people of color, but also whites. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable and yet scholarly; analytical and yet accessible.
