Hachette India

Black Success: The Surprising Truth

Tony Sewell

Tony Sewell chaired the government’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities. Its report aroused a storm of controversy, because it concluded that most racial disparities were not the result of discrimination.
The author uses his upbringing in London, where he was at the Brixton riots, and his long career in academia, teaching, journalism and the charitable sector to inform his analysis.
Sewell has a long history of helping black youngsters from low income backgrounds: his charity ‘Generating Genius’ helps hundreds of black students to excel at STEM subjects by attending university or getting on in business
This book will be of interest to those who enjoyed, Woke Racism by James McWhorter, The War on the West by Douglas Murray and Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch
It will be of interest to black British people who want their success recognised and celebrated, as well as those sceptical of ID politics, and fair-minded citizens interested in a different take on the issue of race relations in the UK.

Tony Sewell

Born in Brixton, Lord Tony Sewell CBE has been a journalist, teacher and education expert. He was part of the team responsible for driving the transformation of Hackney’s education outcomes in the early 2000s, and his charity Generating Genius has helped hundreds of young black people into STEM in business and academia. He was recently chair of the UK’s government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, the recommendations which are now the foundations of the government’s policy on tackling racial inequalities. He was awarded a CBE for his work on education and was elevated to the House of Lords in 2022. That same year he began his latest project, a farming enterprise in Jamaica.