Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo - ISBN: 9781529353808
Paperback
White male American identity: A subversive history of power and its costs.

Mediocre

The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power

  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    7 December 2020

Summary

From the TIME 100 author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity.

‘One of the most admired writers and “internet yellers” around… [Mediocre is] ever more vital… Oluo’s meeting the time – this movement against white supremacy and systems of oppression. But the question she keeps asking in her work: Are we?’ IBRAM X KENDI

‘Mediocre paints an urgent, …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529353808
ISBN-10:1529353807
Author:Ijeoma Oluo
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:Basic Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:7 December 2020
Weight:420g
Dimensions:232mm x 154mm x 28mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

PRAISE FOR SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE - *

Impassioned and unflinching - Vogue

Insightful and trenchant - Publisher’s Weekly

In order to dismantle white supremacy, we must be able to clearly name it … Oluo answers some of the most common questions we hear from white people about racism - Guardian

A clear and candid contribution to an essential conversation - Kirkus

Generous and empathetic, yet usefully blunt…it’s for anyone who wants to be smarter and more empathetic about matters of race and engage in more productive anti-racist action - Salon.com

About The Author

Ijeoma Oluo

Ijeoma Oluo is the author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race. Her work on race has been featured in Guardian, New York Times and the Washington Post. She received the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award from the American Humanist Association. Ijeoma was named on the 2021 TIME 100 list of ‘Emerging Leaders Who Are Shaping the Future’. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

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