So You Want to Talk About Race

eBook, 272 pages

English language

Published Sept. 24, 2019 by Hachette UK.

ISBN:
978-1-5416-1922-7
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5 stars (20 reviews)

In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide

In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions readers don't dare ask, and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans.

Oluo is an exceptional writer with a rare ability to be straightforward, funny, and effective in her coverage of sensitive, hyper-charged issues in America. Her messages are …

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"There is no way you can inherit white privilege from birth, learn racist white supremacist history in schools, consume racist and white supremacist movies and films, work in a racist and white supremacist workforce, and vote for racist and white supremacist governments and not be racist."

This is the simple obvious truth about why all white persons in the western world are racist, even when we try not to be. There is so much we need to unlearn, so much we need to learn and so much we need to change before this problem can be solved.

This book could be a good starting point, it's blunt and honest, direct and filled with empathy towards all people involved including white people. I put down this book feeling more hopeful, and hopefully also more enlightened, in questions concerning racism.

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