Black Like Me Analysis

Griffin's wanderlust is on a par with Jack Kerouac's, at least in mileage if not months spent on the road. He leaves his home in Texas in order to roam through the Deep South. Then he visits New Or...

This is basically a diary. Okay, we know that we don't write as nicely as this in our diaries, but this guy is a journalist. He writes his diary for a living. We write ours in order to remember our...

One of these genres is not like the others. We figured that you super smart Shmoopsters would have had autobiography tagged for this book from the start. Griffin writes about his own experiences, i...

PersonalBlack Like Me is not your everyday scientific or journalistic article. It's full of emotion, imagery, sadness, and even fear. At the time, Griffin's blunt descriptions of the horrors that h...

ImagerialLet's start with a quote:I flicked the negatives, as he must have done, toward the corner, heard them scratch dryly against the wall and flap to the floor. One struck the dead globe, causi...

To fling my arms wideIn some place of the sun,To whirl and to danceTill the white day is done.Then rest at cool eveningBeneath a tall treeWhile night comes on gently,Dark like me-That is my dream!T...

Rest at pale evening...A tall, slim tree...Night coming tenderlyBlack Like Me. -Langston Hughes Check out our "What's Up With The Title" section for epigraph-y goodness.

And it is happening on a wider scale. Too many of the more militant leaders are preaching Negro superiority. I pray that the Negro will not miss his chance to rise to greatness, to build from the s...

You got this. We're not saying that this is as easy as "See Spot Run," but we're pretty sure that you shouldn't have very much trouble reading Black Like Me. Remember, Griffin is a journalist, and...

Black like Who?Griffin has a wonderful idea: What could be a better way to understand racism than for him to become a black man himself? Brilliant? Yes. Insanely dangerous? Most definitely. This se...

Griffin is the knight who has learned about the monster terrorizing villagers in a far-off land. That monster is called racism, the villagers are black people, and that village is the American Sout...

Griffin comes up with the best idea ever: to go undercover as a black guy and find out the truth about racism. After he darkens his skin and heads into the heart of Dixie, there's no turning back.B...

It seems that Black Like Me is a super easy title to parody. There's almost every variation that you can think of, including this Saturday Night Live parody titled, "White Like Me." (Source)For a...

Two words. Sketchy hitchhiking. This book is almost totally squeaky clean except for that time that Griffin is forced to hitchhike on the highway. Almost every single one of those guys talks to him...

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