it's for anyone who wants to be smarter and more empathetic about matters of race and engage in more productive anti-racist action. 'Generous and empathetic, yet usefully blunt. 'Oluo gives us - both white people and people of color - that language to engage in clear, constructive, and confident dialogue with each other about how to deal with racial prejudices and biases.' - National Book Review 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. In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to 'model minorities' in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.

How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law take umbrage when you asked to touch her hair - and how do you make it right? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend? From the author of the 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an illuminating ( New York Times Book Review) history of white male. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy - from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans - has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America About the Author Ijeoma Oluo is the author of the 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race.Her work on race has been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post.She has twice been named to the Root 100, and she received the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award from the American Humanist Association.

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