John Howard Griffin Quote
The core concept in Griffin’s writings about racism—that members of dominant groups tend to view minorities, because they seem different in some extrinsic way, as intrinsically other, and as merely underdeveloped versions of their own imprisoning culture—was intuited in Black Like Me and articulated in a seminal essay, The Intrinsic Other
John Howard Griffin
The core concept in Griffin’s writings about racism—that members of dominant groups tend to view minorities, because they seem different in some extrinsic way, as intrinsically other, and as merely underdeveloped versions of their own imprisoning culture—was intuited in Black Like Me and articulated in a seminal essay, The Intrinsic Other
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