Drop The Dread, Honky: Why White Artists Wanna Be Black
James Maycock, Guardian, The, October 1997
IN 1959, JOHN Howard Griffin, a white journalist, dyed his skin black and travelled through the southern states of America. He found the experience so disturbing he would wake at night screaming.
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