He didn’t provide any additional information about this so-called “disguise.”
The official description on Amazon reads, “Six decades after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, award-winning journalist Sam Forster performs a daring transformation in order to taxonomize the various types of racism that persist in modern America. Seven Shoulders is the most important book on American race relations that has ever been written.”
With no listed publisher, it’s quite possible Forster is assigning that level of ultimate importance to his own work.
It didn’t take long for people to hop in his mentions and rip him for the premise.
“Instead of buying this book from a white author who traveled the country in Black face, read and listen to actual Black people about our lived experience,” wrote @JanelCubbage. “Profiting off of Black face and racism is nasty work.”
