Firstly he takes drugs to make himself darker and goes to a state that is under racial segregation. He puts himself through a lot of risk and danger. The contrast he faced by walking down the street now as a black man and not able to do the same things he used to do as a white man, ordering coffee or being able to use the bathroom, canâ€™t be portrayed by any other person except the same person who once was white. The idea was a mirror up for the whites to see themselves in ways that they would otherwise not have. It brings out what it was like to be a black person in the 1950s. It brings him out as a man who went through a lot to experience what people from other cultures went through. Griffinâ€™s journey mainly talks about the oppression the blacks faced at the time and his experience especially given that he was white. Being a white man disguised in a black manâ€™s skin he underwent all the social injustices that black men went through at that time. He stayed for seven weeks among the blacks in one of South American states which were under racial segregation. Itâ€™s a brilliant sociological study of the black experience, it mainly talks about a 39 year old white journalist who changed his skin tone and went to live among the blacks. He published the book â€˜black like meâ€™ in 1961 He married in 1953, one of his students Elizabeth Ann.

Left blind during the war, he began to write in 1946, where he also published his experience with blindness in the book scattered shadows. He studied French and literature and later medicine. John griffin was born in Jin Dallas Texas to john Walter griffin and Lena may young. The black experience: Review of john Griffinâ€™s black like me

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