Read the Book and Answer the study questions
*Essay, double spaced, size 12 font, a minimum of 500 words, but you can go over.
*Essay topic: While posing as a black man, Griffin encounters many southern whites who assured him that the races got along and were in harmony in the South in 1959. How does his 6 week journey disprove that notion? Discuss at least four examples from the book (but you can use more) where Griffin’s experiences revealed the ugly reality Blacks faced in the Jim Crow South. Be sure to include a paragraph where you give your personal reaction to the book.
Turnitin will be used. If you plagiarize, you will be caught. Do not use outside sources. Use only the book and your homework.
Answer these questions as you read the book Black Like Me, and it will give you information for writing your essay on the book.
*Why did John Howard Griffin decide to undergo this experiment and write the book?
*Did Griffin see similarities between blacks in America and Jews in Nazi Germany? How so?
*What was the common view that many whites had toward race relations in the South?
*What did his dermatologist mean when he said that Griffin, once black, “would now go into oblivion?”
*What kind of racial etiquette did Griffin have to learn after becoming “black?”
*What kind of daily indignities and insults did blacks have to face every day, especially in common every day activities?
*What kind of treatment did Griffin receive from blacks that he met, for example the New Orleans shoe shine guy, or the man who picked him up and took him home in Alabama?
*How was treatment in New Orleans different than say Mississippi? Why?
*What kinds of shocking things did white men want to talk about to Griffin while he was black?
*How was Griffin treated when he went into a place black, then white?
*Griffin said that racism bore down on you psychologically, in what ways?
*What was the “hate stare?”
*How did a black man experience racism as an individual but also because you simply had the wrong color skin?
*How did Griffin find the South’s religion as being in many ways hypocritical?
*How did Griffin’s experiences personally affect him?
*What did Griffin mean when he said whites condemned blacks for the low position in life not realizing that whites had contributed to this condition?
*Did Griffin find that blacks and whites had the same desires and problems? Explain.
*How was Griffin treated after people found out he had lived as a black man for 6 weeks? How were other whites treated who tried to tell the truth that blacks deserved equal rights?
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