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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Marcus

White Canadian writer self-publishes book on race after traveling US in ‘Afro wig and Mocha shade foundation’

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A white Canadian writer who travelled the US in blackface and published what he has described as “the most important book on American race relations that has ever been written” has been met with swift backlash.

“Last summer, I disguised myself as a Black man and traveled throughout the United States to document how racism persists in American society,” journalist Sam Forster, who has written for The National Post and The Spectator, posted on X on Tuesday.

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