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Prison of Culture : Beyond Black Like Me.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Antonio : Wings Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (162 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781609401498
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prison of CultureDDC classification:
  • 305.800973
LOC classification:
  • E185.615 -- .G754 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 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.
Summary: 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 reflections on communication, justice, and dying.
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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 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.

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 reflections on communication, justice, and dying.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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