num_pages: 256
description: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Editors Choice  A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year From journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action a must-read in the effort to dismantle deep-seated poisons of systemic racism and white supremacy ( San Francisco Chronicle ). Race as we have come to understand it is a fiction; but racism as we have come to live it is a fact. The point here is not to impose a new racial hierarchy but to remove an existing one. After centuries of waiting for white majorities to overturn white supremacy it seems to me that it has fallen to Black people to do it themselves. Acclaimed columnist and author Charles Blow never wanted to write a race book. But as violence against Black peopleboth physical and psychologicalseemed only to increase in recent years culminating in the historic pandemic and protests of the summer of 2020 he felt compelled to write a new story for Black Americans. He envisioned a succinct counterintuitive and impassioned corrective to the myths that have for too long governed our thinking about race and geography in America. Drawing on both political observations and personal experience as a Black son of the South Charles set out to offer a call to action by which Black people can finally achieve equality on their own terms. So what will it take to make lasting change when small steps have so frequently failed? Its going to take an unprecedented shift in power. The Devil You Know is a groundbreaking manifesto proposing nothing short of the most audacious power play by Black people in the history of this country. This book is a grand exhortation to generations of a people offering a road map to true and lasting freedom.
language: English
title: The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
publisher: Harper