SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE
Ijeoma Oluo
BLURB
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 passionate but finely tuned, and crystalize ideas that would otherwise be vague by empowering them with aha-moment clarity. Her writing brings to mind voices like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay, and Jessica Valenti in Full Frontal Feminism, and a young Gloria Naylor, particularly in Naylor’s seminal essay “The Meaning of a Word.”
★★★★★
So You Want to Talk About Race is a user-friendly guide on issues that affect minorities. Ms. Oluo offers the reader a chance to sit uncomfortably with some issues that they might not realize how their thoughts, words, or actions can be adding to the race issue in America.
This book offers a lot to think about and practical ways about what you can do in your circumstances.
[read December 2019]