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Author:
Charles M. Blow
Publisher:
Harper
Date:
January 26, 2021
From journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action for Black Americans to amass political power and fight white supremacy.
What The Reviewers Say
Charles Blow's own declaration of radical thought — for Black Americans to reconsider their Great Migration North and imagine new possibilities of Black political might.
The distinguished New York Times columnist offers a daring but utterly sensible plan to advance Black civil rights.
His is a familiar argument, revitalized by the South’s recent political developments.
Blow describes his idea as 'big' and 'audacious' and 'grand' and 'revolutionary' and many additional adjectives making clear his pride and confidence. Yet this is not a fully developed proposal — more like a rough thought experiment stretched into book form. He says the reverse migration should be intentional and strategic, but the strategy is only partially laid out, reflecting a simplified interpretation of history, one in which counterfactuals are taken as given and sheer numbers are assumed to overpower politics, power and entrenched prejudice.
