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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812645203321

Autore

Griffin John Howard <1920-1980, >

Titolo

Prison of culture : beyond Black like me / / John Howard Griffin ; edited by Robert Bonazzi ; with a remembrance by Studs Terkel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Antonio, Texas : , : Wings Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-60940-149-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Discrimination - United States

Stereotypes (Social psychology) - United States

Prejudices - United States

Racism - United States

Spirituality

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; A Remembrance by Studs Terkel; Introduction: Beyond Black Like Me by Robert Bonazzi; I. Essays on Racism; Privacy of Conscience; The Intrinsic Other; Profile of a Racist; On Killers of the Dream; Requiem for A Martyr; Racist Sins of Christians; Malcolm X; American Racism in the Sixties; From A Time To Be Human; II. Essays on Spirituality; Poulenc Behind the Mask; Fraternal Dialogue; The Little Brothers; The Terrain of Physical Pain; Final Reflections; Acknowledgments; About the Editor; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

The companion volume to the 50th-anniversary edition of Black Like Me, this book features John Howard Griffin's later writings on racism and spirituality. Conveying a progressive evolution in thinking, it further explores Griffin's ethical stand in the human rights struggle and nonviolent pursuit of equality?a view he shared with greats such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Merton. Enlightening and forthright, this record also focuses on Griffin's spiritual grounding in the Catholic monastic tradition, discussing the illuminating meditations



on suffering and the author's own refle