Analysis Of Black Like Me

Black Like Me, a movie in which a white reporter named John Howard Griffin goes under extensive treatments to make his skin darker, dark enough to be mistaken as black. While in the south as an apparent black man, Griffin slowly degrades from an enthusiastic reporter excited to perform research about black life in the south to a man ashamed to be a white man. Over the course of the movie, Griffin shifts from pride to self-hate. Once Griffin spends some time in the southern United States he sees the racial prejudice of the South versus the ability of the southern blacks to endure. As Griffin sees this manichean war before him, he sees for the first time the real world. The ripping of Griffin from his idea of the world starts to tear him