Bring on the tough stuff - there’s not just one right answer.
- How would Black Like Me be different if the narrator were a black man or woman attempting to pass as white?
- Why do you think Griffin decided to write Black Like Me after already publishing an article about his experience in Sepia magazine?
- Black Like Me was written right in the middle of the civil-rights movement in the South. How do you think it would be different if it were set in the North? Before the civil-rights movement? After it? Or what if it was set today?
- Griffin says in Black Like Me that after the experiment he is partially black. Is that true? What makes a person black, white, or any race?
- What techniques does Griffin use to draw us emotionally into the story of Black Like Me? How would it be different if he used a more novelistic writing style?