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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 people—both physical and psychological—seemed 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. 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Smith turns then to desire, mortality the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood and a diagnosis of HIV positive. \"Some of us are killed \/ in pieces,\" Smith writes, some of us all at once. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDon't Call Us Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes America--\"Dear White America\"--where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeptember 5, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDanez Smith is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e[insert] boy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2014, YesYes Books), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. 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