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So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

Start date: August 1, 2020

Finish date: October 1, 2020

Discussion: Aug/Sept '20 Antiracism

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Aug/Sept '20 Antiracism

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Sep 28, 2018 Xanthe rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-in-2018, poc-author, non-fiction, activism

This book should be essential reading for our current times. Ijeoma Oluo is matter-of-fact and painfully honest, taking the reader (most likely a white person, but not assumed to be so) through many of the concepts and responses to our modern discourse on race and racism. She includes a lot of personal stories and doesn't shy away from the pain she has experienced which I was very grateful for even as I marveled at her willingness to lay herself bare for the reader. We should all follow her exam ...more

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Aug 13, 2019 Tara rated it it was amazing

Shelves: nonfiction, pocauthors, 2019

I loved this. It's a great, more accessible complement to White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism ... she uses personal stories and a Q&A style to make some great points. I don't think it's likely to get picked up or understood by many people who aren't already open to what she has to say, but it provides great reinforcement of similar messages we're hearing from many other people of color these days, and great fodder for responding to people who make some of the ...more

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Nov 24, 2020 JaNel rated it it was amazing

Shelves: interest, social-justice, library-hardcopy

at least read the chapter “Is it really about race?”
P. 13 what keeps a child in Appalachia poor is not what keeps a poor child in Chicago poor, even if from a distance, the outcomes look the same. And what keeps an able-bodied black women poor is not what keeps a disabled white man poor, even if the outcomes look the same.

P. 9-10 Why don’t we address class division – – poverty – – first? The question is why do you think Black people are poor? Do you think it’s for the same reasons the white peop ...more

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