The author, who is white, has taken the appearence (by darkening his skin) of a black man during several months. He relates his painful experience of the everyday racism and brutality in the South of the United States.
This book was written in 1960-61 and was one of the first real "full immersion" experiences of this kind (cf. Tête de Turc by Günter Wallraff).
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