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A review by kimbongiorno
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
5.0
This is one of those books whose brief description can't quite capture how much it touches on.
If you're reading/trying to learn more about race in America (like the histories of Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, and other people in this country, by birth or not), education, women's rights, voting, elections, housing, toxic masculinity, sports, power, money, policing, social media harassment/trolling/dangers, parenting, media, marketing, and/or human nature vs nurture, this book is for you.
Her book SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE was great for me because it took big and complex and subtle concepts and broke them into laymen's terms with either relatable or easily understandable language, then showed how the problems were not a lost hope. There are things each of us can do to help with the repairs.
This book has a similar style, which I appreciated.
I grew up female in the US so many of the things she mentioned were already on my radar to some degree, but she gave them clarity. The ones that weren't made total sense to me once they were revealed, explained, exampled.
This book is one long piece of evidence we can put in front of all the people out there who were told, "You're crazy" through the years by white men and the people who don't question the status quo when they spoke up. You were not, in fact, imaging things.
If you're reading/trying to learn more about race in America (like the histories of Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, and other people in this country, by birth or not), education, women's rights, voting, elections, housing, toxic masculinity, sports, power, money, policing, social media harassment/trolling/dangers, parenting, media, marketing, and/or human nature vs nurture, this book is for you.
Her book SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE was great for me because it took big and complex and subtle concepts and broke them into laymen's terms with either relatable or easily understandable language, then showed how the problems were not a lost hope. There are things each of us can do to help with the repairs.
This book has a similar style, which I appreciated.
I grew up female in the US so many of the things she mentioned were already on my radar to some degree, but she gave them clarity. The ones that weren't made total sense to me once they were revealed, explained, exampled.
This book is one long piece of evidence we can put in front of all the people out there who were told, "You're crazy" through the years by white men and the people who don't question the status quo when they spoke up. You were not, in fact, imaging things.