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To all the stable geniuses out there, this one’s for you

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo

January 17, 2022 by dsbs42 4 Comments

I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds the reviews the hardest part of the Cannonball Reads. I read 44 books last year but only managed to review 17 of them. I’m aiming for the full 52 again this year, but this is, I think, the fifth time [ETA it is the sixth] I’ve tried and failed a full Cannonball? It’s harder to create than it is to consume. It’s also easier to tear down than it is to build. It’s easy to write […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ijeoma Oluo

dsbs42's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Ijeoma Oluo ·
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“Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it’s actually worth a lot of discomfort.”

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

December 30, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I wish I felt better so I could really give So You Want to Talk About Race what it deserves, review-wise. The short review is if you haven’t already read this, you need to. Maybe you are like me and put it on your TBR right after its publication in 2018 and then it fell slowly down the list. Maybe you saw it on all of the recommended reading lists that proliferated in summer 2020 (A Reading List on Race for Allies, Antiracist Reading, Understanding […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Anti-Racism, faintingviolet, Ijeoma Oluo, Intersectionality, privilege, race in america, read harder challenge, reading for allies, required reading, So you want to talk about race, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:74 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Anti-Racism, faintingviolet, Ijeoma Oluo, Intersectionality, privilege, race in america, read harder challenge, reading for allies, required reading, So you want to talk about race, we need diverse books ·
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“We must stop confusing bullies with leaders.”

Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo

May 6, 2021 by Nart Leave a Comment

Reading this book puts me in the mind of what I’ve seen on TV of going to one of those televised evangelical church sessions where you pay someone to slap you in the face to cure you of cancer, only instead of a conman trying to steal people’s money, it’s an intelligent woman giving me the words to express frustrations I’ve never been able to properly explain and it is so cathartic it almost  feels like an out of body experience. Plot (yes, I’m calling […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ijeoma Oluo

Nart's CBR13 Review No:31 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Ijeoma Oluo ·
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Mediocre, Cover, Ijeoma Oluo

Anything But

Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo

March 11, 2021 by Nannerbears 1 Comment

What are we doing—we’re constantly holding up the mediocre white man as the standard and then bending to it at the detriment of good ideas, fairness, and equity. Mediocre is a must read. It was inappropriate to yell “Yes!” after every sentence, but that’s how I felt. In some ways, it’s telling you what you already know, but it’s also explaining how deep the problem really is and also affirming that no, it’s not just you. I remember so clearly arguing with my brother when […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: facts, feminism, Ijeoma Oluo, must read, patriarchy, Race

Nannerbears's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: facts, feminism, Ijeoma Oluo, must read, patriarchy, Race ·
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I would push this book on anyone.

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

March 9, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

One of these days I will find a way to successfully and reliably write reviews for books that mean a lot to me, but that is not this day. This day, I’m going to half-ass some things about this awesome book I read last month but have been avoiding reviewing. A thing that I can say with confidence is that the audio version is great. Somehow I’ve never listened to a book narrated by Bahni Turpin before, but she was fantastic, and I hope she […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: antiracism, Ijeoma Oluo, narfna, non fiction, So you want to talk about race

narfna's CBR13 Review No:24 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: antiracism, Ijeoma Oluo, narfna, non fiction, So you want to talk about race ·
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More Essential Reading

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo

February 6, 2021 by ASKReviews 3 Comments

Best for: All the people, but I think white men really need to read and sit with this one. In a nutshell: Author Oluo explores the ways in which the elevation of the mediocrity of white men harms everyone (including white men). Worth quoting: “What I’m saying is that white male mediocrity is a baseline, the dominant narrative, and that everything in our society is centered around preserving white male power regardless of white male skill or talent.” “How can white men be our born […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ijeoma Oluo, Race

ASKReviews's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Ijeoma Oluo, Race ·
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