{"id":40091,"date":"2015-02-23T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40091"},"modified":"2019-01-09T22:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T22:23:59","slug":"black-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40091","title":{"rendered":"Black Like Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/book\/black-like-me-by-john-howard-griffin\/9780451208644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Black Like Me<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Penguin Books<\/a><br \/>\n2003-05-06 (originally published in 1961)<br \/>\n208 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN 9780451208644<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Howard_Griffin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Howard Griffin<\/a> (1920-1980)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"502\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/book\/black-like-me-by-john-howard-griffin\/9780451208644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/03189\/black-like-mebook_3189476e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/book\/black-like-me-by-john-howard-griffin\/9780451208644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.randomhouse.com\/cover\/9780451208644?height=467&amp;alt=no_cover_penguin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_South\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deep South<\/a> of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity-that in this new millennium still has something important to say to every American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,6462,20],"tags":[1308,18962],"class_list":["post-40091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-john-howard-griffin","tag-penguin-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57263,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40091\/revisions\/57263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}