{"product_id":"9781788164528","title":"Black Like Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohn 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"APD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764564754678,"sku":"9781788164528","price":64.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8050\/3286\/files\/9781788164528.jpg?v=1790693559","url":"https:\/\/shop.litbooks.com.my\/products\/9781788164528","provider":"Lit Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}