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Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
The Rhetorical Effectiveness Of Black Like Me, Hugh Rank
The Rhetorical Effectiveness Of Black Like Me, Hugh Rank
English Faculty Publications
In 1959, John Howard Griffin, a white Southern novelist, disguised himself as a Negro and traveled through the South to experience "what it is like to be a Negro in a land where we keep the Negro down." The brief narrative account of this experience is recorded in Black Like Me, a book which wom the Saturday Review's Anisfield-Wolf award in 1962 for its contribution toward race relations. In brief, why is Black Like Me rhetorically effective?