On the Southern Literary Trail discussion

is black like me counsider southern lit
something i was thinking about putting up to vote but not sure if it fits

It fits just fine, Erika.

Erika wrote: "is black like me counsider southern lit
something i was thinking about putting up to vote but not sure if it fits"

Yes, indeed, Erika. As Diane said, it fits just fine. The author was a white Texan who dyed his skin to pass as a black man, traveling through the segregated deep south in the 1950s. It was published around 1961 as I recall. I hope this will suffice in place of responding to your message posted to me immediately prior to your topic here.

That's one of my all time favorite books. Top 5 for sure.

I’m with you, Smiley. Just reread BLM last year after reading it many, many years ago. I live just a few miles from Mansfield, TX, which I hadn’t remembered was where JHG lived at the time. So strange to drive through the town now: I think about the book almost every time.

I heard today -- and I'm sure there are many ahead of me -- about a NF book called Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by a (black) ex-state trooper named Ron Stallworth. There 's a bit of a "white like me" aspect to the book because Stallworth infiltrated the KKK in Colorado in the late Seventies.

The book was published several months ago and is scheduled to come out in paperback at the end of July. Spike Lee is making a movie of it. From what I can glean so far from an article in today's GUARDIAN (the "Books" section), Stallworth did not resort to bleaching agents or chemicals to give himself more the appearance of a white man, but he did successfully hoodwink Klansmen into thinking he was one of their own -- even met David Duke.

Of course, Colorado is not the South but apparently the KKK has or had a toehold in some areas of the Mountain states.

Just FYI: https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...

ALLEN wrote: "I heard today -- and I'm sure there are many ahead of me -- about a NF book called Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by a (black) ex-state t..."

The trailer for the movie, Black Klansman, is fantastic, by the way. I saw it before the start of Sorry to Bother You last week and plan to see it opening weekend. Early November if I recall correctly.

That's interesting! Thanks for the info!
Chuck has a boxed set of Universal movie classics and time permitting, we plan to see Lee's DO THE RIGHT THING this afternoon.