She was named to the 2021 Time 100 Next list, has twice been named to The Root 100, and received the Harvard Humanist of the Year award. A fiery passion powers Oluos writing-but her tone is also tinged with an understandable world-weariness and frustration. Her work on race has been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post. Mediocre is a jaw-dropping read, with content that the author researched extensively but wrote with the everyday reader in mind. 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.įor marketing and bookstagram inquiries please contact Abby at the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity. Ijeoma Oluo is the author of the 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race. 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.

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? From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity.

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