![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Publisher Synopsis: 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? “Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America” by Ijeoma Oluo So read on -hopefully you’ll find them as interesting and informative as we do! (We also highly recommend purchasing these books from rather than Amazon if you are able.) We don’t want to lump these into our regular book reviews, and we also can’t do the work of reading, reflecting, and acting for you. So, here’s another entry in our series, Decolonize Your Mind, in which we’ll recommend anti-racist books and break down what’s so enlightening and educational. While it’s important to take action and not just “join a book club” (as so many white women are wont to do when it comes to performative allyship), we are still a book blog. ![]() Here at She’s Full of Lit, we are deeply committed to anti-racism work, and anti-racist reading. ![]()
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