![]() Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism.Īs provocative as it is essential, this book will upend everything you thought you knew about American identity and offers a bold new vision of American greatness. Through the last 150 years of American history - from the post-reconstruction South and the mythic stories of cowboys in the West, to the present-day controversy over NFL protests and the backlash against the rise of women in politics - Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. Ijeoma Oluo, the author of the 2020 book, MEDIOCRE: THE DANGEROUS LEGACY OF WHITE MALE AMERICA, is probably going to be misunderstood and again as she was after her previous book SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE, be the target of vile messages threatening her with murder and rape. It is a mediocrity that maintains a violent, sexist, racist status quo that robs our most promising of true greatness. ![]() ![]() What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments? ![]() Description 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 identity. Ijeoma Oluo's latest book 'Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, examines white male supremacy and its impact on America for generations. ![]()
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