Black Like Me: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Black Like Me is a non-fiction book written by caucasian journalist John Howard Griffin about his experiences passing as a black man in the segregated South during the late 1950s. To effect the ruse, Griffin underwent skin treatments, the adverse medical effects of which later lead to his premature death. Griffin was transformed by the change in skin tone to the point that people he met as a white man did not recognize him.