So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

So You Want to Talk About Race

by Ijeoma Oluo

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Ijeoma Oluo's 2018 chapter-by-chapter practical guide to specific race-related conversations and concepts — what affirmative action actually is, what intersectionality means, how to talk about police brutality, what to do when you've said something racist.

Core ideas
  • The book is organized question-by-question — each chapter title is a question Oluo gets asked or argues should be asked, and each chapter answers it directly, with personal-narrative integration.
  • The "what to do when you've said something racist" chapter is the book's most-cited practical material — Oluo provides a specific script (acknowledge, apologize, listen, do better, don't make it about your guilt) that's been widely adopted.
  • The book is written in a conversational, accessible voice — Oluo is a working journalist, not an academic, and the prose moves at journalistic pace through material that gets ponderous in other treatments.
Published2018
Pages248
ISBN9781580056779
ReadDec 2020
race in America

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