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Still walking in another's shoes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
"Today there's been a regression [in race relations]," says Mr. Spriggs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the director of the Urban League's Institute for Opportunity and Equality. "The book is relevant to our times. We're no longer in the Jim Crow era,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but blacks are still followed. It's still hard to get a taxi. We're still denied jobs because of race."
Whites did not hide their contempt for Griffin as a black person. That has not changed as much as people might assume, says Sandra Jackson, an associate professor of education and director of the Center for Culture and History of the Black Diaspora at DePaul University in Chicago. "Some of the experience [of racism] is still in your face. Look at the black man who was dragged from a truck in Texas. That was out in the open," she says. Blacks are nevertheless cautious about giving too much credence to a book by a white on the black experience. "Griffin could return to what he used to be," says Ms. Jackson. "It's like a man trying to be a woman for a day. Most men live for 78 years. "Griffin proved a point about the absurdity of treatment based on skin color,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but it's ridiculous to suppose that African-American culture exists entirely in response to white racism,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," says Lawrence Jackson,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], an assistant professor of English at Howard University in Washington.
"Black Like Me" is required reading in schools nationwide. Prof. Peter Morgan of the University of West Georgia in Carrollton uses it in a class on Young Adult Literature for aspiring teachers. "Literature helps students - and student teachers - develop empathy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to see the world from multiple perspectives," he says. " 'Black Like Me' is especially potent in this respect. Students who are somewhat jaded by TV movies and preachy novels are stunned by the new insights they get into the real world of their parents and grandparents."
'Black Like Me" was initially praised for its journalistic snapshot image of the South. It is now praised for transcending its time and place in exploring universal themes of identity and race. "The book is useful as a metaphor about walking in someone else's shoes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," says Jackson of DePaul. "It takes people out of their comfort zone and gives them insights they might not have had."
After Griffin's account was published (initially as a series in the black magazine Sepia),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he was hung in effigy in Mansfield,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], where he lived. Death threats forced him to move his family to Mexico. Later in life,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he became disillusioned with the lack of progress in race relations. His final project was official biographer of monk Thomas Merton. He never finished, dying in 1980. Left unfinished too,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in his own mind,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was the improvement in race relations he wanted his book to effect.
Teachers tell another story. Morgan says the book continues to arouse debate and insight. "There are always students who say,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 'But it's not like that anymore,' " says Morgan. "But then another student will say,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 'Well.,' and the class begins to share anecdotes that demonstrate that old ideas run close to the surface for many."
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