Book #172 of 2021: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain This is a remarkable and remarkably ambitious project, bringing together eighty prominent African American writers, from Angela Davis to Jamelle Bouie to Isabel Wilkerson, in order to pen a sweeping account of …
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Book Review: Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
Book #296 of 2020: Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo Although I agree with nearly everything that author Ijeoma Oluo opines in these pages, I’ve found it somewhat lacking as a single cohesive argument. Her stated thesis, that white men are so privileged by American society that many of us …
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Book Review: So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Book #76 of 2018: So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo This 2018 book presents an outstanding clear-eyed discussion of racism in contemporary America, aimed at providing readers with the tools to have more constructive dialogues of their own. It explores concepts like privilege, microaggressions, and structural injustice, addressing some of the …
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