"Ijeoma's revelatory and visionary new book confronts disturbing hidden histories that vibrate throughout our institutions and communities today. Mediocre serves as a call to action for every person, regardless of race or gender, to actively resist white male mediocrity's hold." - Kimberlé Crenshaw, Executive Director, African American Policy Forum, and Professor, UCLA and Columbia Law Schools "Oluo masterfully diagnoses the pervasive plague of white mediocrity.
Her new book, Mediocre, builds on this exemplary work, homing in on the role of white patriarchy in creating and upholding a system built to disenfranchise anyone who isn't a white male." - TIME "Ijeoma Oluo's sharp yet accessible writing about the American racial landscape made her 2018 book, So You Want to Talk About Race, an invaluable resource for anyone looking to understand and dismantle racist structures. Oluo calls on us to do better because we deserve better, and her words will resonate with all ready to look inward and enact change." - Library Journal "Oluo grounds her research in interviews and primary sources, while also describing the harassment her family has faced because of her writing. A bold, incisive book on heavy topics with a call to action for a more equitable future that doesn't center White men." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A gifted storyteller and thorough researcher, Oluo analyzes.histories, many of them lesser known, with solid scholarship and useful pop-culture references.
"Erudite yet accessible, grounded in careful research as well as Oluo's personal experiences of racism and misogyny, this is an essential reckoning with race, sex, and power in America." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) 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. 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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