Conflict Management In “Black Like Me” by John Howard Griffin identifies how conflict management greatly changes after he undergoes a drastic lifestyle change to discover the truth of how people are categorized by their skin color and not their own character. Griffin undergoes an experiment in order to allow him to study and elaborate on racial boundaries that still exist during the 1950’s. Griffin, almost immediately realizes segregation and low self-esteem caused by the feeling …showed first 75 words of 343 total…

…showed last 75 words of 343 total…white part of his soul shall go to heaven”. Griffin conflict management is passive in the end only because he is observing and he doesn’t want to draw attention to himself, which might get him into trouble. Griffin’s conflict management is arbitrary because he is no longer what he was before the experiment and knows he is going to have to live like a black male for the rest of his natural life.