So You Want to Talk about Race

• Main Author: Oluo, Ijeoma (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: United States Seal Press 2020
• Subjects: United States > Race relations; Intercultural communication; Racism > United States
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• Item Description: Best Seller PAB_MESY.8 2020 (Best Seller MPH); Includes discussion guide (©2019).; Originally published in hardcover by Seal Press in 2018.
• Physical Description: xxi, 245 pages 17 cm
• ISBN: 9781541647435

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, Roxane Gay, Jessica Valenti in Full Frontal Feminism, and a young Gloria Naylor, particularly in Naylor's seminal essay "The Meaning of a Word."