Black Like Me

Black Like Me
Author: John Howard Griffin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780451192035

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This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.

For Black Girls Like Me

For Black Girls Like Me
Author: Mariama J. Lockington
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2019-07-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374308063

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In this lyrical coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity, Mariama J. Lockington draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark. Makeda June Kirkland is eleven years old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out. When Makeda's family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, she leaves behind her best friend, Lena— the only other adopted black girl she knows— for a new life. In New Mexico, everything is different. At home, Makeda’s sister is too cool to hang out with her anymore and at school, she can’t seem to find one real friend. Through it all, Makeda can’t help but wonder: What would it feel like to grow up with a family that looks like me? Through singing, dreaming, and writing secret messages back and forth with Lena, Makeda might just carve a small place for herself in the world. For Black Girls Like Me is for anyone who has ever asked themselves: How do you figure out where you are going if you don’t know where you came from?

White Like Me

White Like Me
Author: Tim Wise
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2010-10-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1458780910

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Flipping John Howard Griffin's classic Black Like Me, and extending Noel Ignatiev's How The Irish Became White into the present-day, Wise explores the meanings and consequences of whiteness, and discusses the ways in which racial privilege can harm not just people of color, but also whites. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable and yet scholarly; analytical and yet accessible.

Black Like Kyra, White Like Me

Black Like Kyra, White Like Me
Author: Judith Vigna
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre:
ISBN: 9780613295628

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Another Black Like Me

Another Black Like Me
Author: Nielson Rosa Bezerra
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2015-01-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443873012

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This book brings together authors from different institutions and perspectives and from researchers specialising in different aspects of the experiences of the African Diaspora from Latin America. It creates an overview of the complexities of the lives of Black people over various periods of history, as they struggled to build lives away from Africa in societies that, in general, denied them the basic right of fully belonging, such as the right of fully belonging in the countries where, by choice or force of circumstance, they lived. Another Black Like Me thus presents a few notable scenes from the long history of Blacks in Latin America: as runaway slaves seen through the official documentation denouncing as illegal those who resisted captivity; through the memoirs of a slave who still dreamt of his homeland; reflections on the status of Black women; demands for citizenship and kinship by Black immigrants; the fantasies of Blacks in the United States about the lives of Blacks in Brazil; a case study of some of those who returned to Africa and had to build a new identity based on their experiences as slaves; and the abstract representations of race and color in the Caribbean. All of these provide the reader with a glimpse of complex phenomena that, though they cannot be generalized in a single definition of blackness in Latin America, share the common element of living in societies where the definition of blackness was flexible, there were no laws of racial segregation, and where the culture on one hand tolerates miscegenation, and on the other denies full recognition of rights to Blacks.

Counseling Across Cultures

Counseling Across Cultures
Author: Paul B. Pedersen
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2015-01-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483311104

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Offering a primary focus on North American cultural and ethnic diversity while addressing global questions and issues, Counseling Across Cultures, Seventh Edition, edited by Paul B. Pederson, Walter J. Lonner, Juris G. Draguns, Joseph E. Trimble, and María R. Scharrón-del Río, draws on the expertise of 48 invited contributors to examine the cultural context of accurate assessment and appropriate interventions in counseling diverse clients. The book’s chapters highlight work with African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos/as, American Indians, refugees, individuals in marginalized situations, international students, those with widely varying religious beliefs, and many others. Edited by pioneers in multicultural counseling, this volume articulates the positive contributions that can be achieved when multicultural awareness is incorporated into the training of counselors.

The Devil Rides Outside

The Devil Rides Outside
Author: John Howard Griffin
Publisher: Wings Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609401409

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No less a critic than Clifton Fadiman called "The Devil Rides Outside" a staggering novel. The first novel of John H. Griffin, it written during the authorOCOs decade of blindness following an injury suffered during the closing days of World War II. As "Time Magazine" described it, "The Devil Rides Outside" has some things relatively rare in U.S. letters: energy, earnestness and unashamed religious fervor. Written as a diary, the novel relates the intellectual and spiritual battles of a young American musicologist who is studying Gregorian chant in a French Benedictine monastery. Even though he is not Catholic, he must live like the monks, sleeping in a cold stone cell, eating poor food, sharing latrine duties. His dreams rage with memories of his Paris mistress; his days are spent being encouraged by the monks to seek God. He takes up residence outside the monastery after an illness, but he finds the village a slough of greed and pettiness and temptation. Indeed, as the French proverb says, the devil rides outside the monastery walls."

Scattered Shadows

Scattered Shadows
Author: John Howard Griffin
Publisher: Wings Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2004-05-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1609401174

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This never before published memoir by the author of Black Like Me is an extraordinary chronicle of the triumph of the human spirit.

In the Land of Jim Crow

In the Land of Jim Crow
Author: Ray Sprigle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1949
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:

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Available Light

Available Light
Author: John Howard Howard Griffin
Publisher: Wings Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2008-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1609401115

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Culled from previously unpublished material, this collection of writing and photography by John Howard Griffin was taken from the period during which he was writing and revising what would be his most famous book, the bestselling "Black Like Me." Living in exile in Mexico at the time, along with his young family and aging parents, Griffin had been forced from his home town of Mansfield, Texas, by death threats from local white racists. Knowing that he would become a controversial public figure once he returned to the states, he kept an intimate journal of his ethical queries on racism and injustice--and to escape from his worries he also immersed himself in the culture of the Tarascan Indians of Michoacan. Accordingly, Robert Bonazzi's introduction contains substantial unpublished portions of the journals, and the main body of the book is made up of three essays by Griffin--one on photography and two about trips he made to photograph rural Mexico.