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So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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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 […]

I would push this book on anyone.

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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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 […]

This Is The Way

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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With the requisite qualifications that I’m a cishet white dude reviewing this, please take that into consideration when reading. Call outs are, of course, fair game. Like many Americans, I’ve dug into several books on antiracism in the wake of the uprising following George Floyd’s death. I would recommend them all. They all have knowledge and wisdom for these and all times to both address internal attitudes and reform personal politics around racism. None are quantitatively “better” than the other. But if I had to […]

I had know idea what they were talking about

So You Want to Talk about Race by ijeoma oluo

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This book is probably most distinct and best distilled version of the conversations on race that happen on the internet in certain circles — cough cough pajiba cough cough — and should probably be read by everyone. Oluo has taken it upon herself to be the go-to internet voice to help shape and talk through these issues — or more fair to her, if she’s gonna have to do it anyway, because white people are thickheaded fools who won’t leave her alone about it, at […]



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