Hachette India

Woke Racism: How a New Religion has Betrayed Black America

John McWhorter

• John McWhorter is one of America’s most famous black liberal intellectuals – a professor of linguistics at Columbia, and a columnist for the New York Times

• Woke Racism argues that ‘anti-racism’ as currently conceived is in fact both racist, and harmful to the very communities it claims to be trying to help

• Woke Racism was an immediate New York Times bestseller on publication in the US

• It has already sold 1,000 HB copies (TCM) on import in the UK, in six weeks, so there is proven demand for a UK publication

• Publicity will be significant - the success of the book has been a news story in the Sunday Times, and a review there is confirmed; while John is already lined up for a BBC Radio 4 appearance around the time of the book's publication in February

John McWhorter

John H. McWhorter teaches Linguistics, American studies, and Music History at Columbia University. He is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and host of the language podcast Lexicon Valley. His writing has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Daily Beast, New Republic, The Root, and many other venues. McWhorter is the author of over twenty books, including Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter—Then, Now and Forever, The Power of Babel, Losing the Race, and Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue.