So You Want to Talk About Race
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So You Want to Talk About Race
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Narrated by:
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Bahni Turpin
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By:
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Ijeoma Oluo
About this listen
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in America
A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today’s racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide
In So You Want to Talk about Race, editor-at-large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the “N” word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions readers don’t dare ask, and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans.
Oluo is an exceptional writer with a rare ability to be straightforward, funny, and effective in her coverage of sensitive, hyper-charged issues in America. Her messages are passionate but finely tuned, and crystallize ideas that would otherwise be vague by empowering them with aha-moment clarity. Her writing brings to mind voices like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay, and Jessica Valenti in Full Frontal Feminism, and a young Gloria Naylor, particularly in Naylor’s seminal essay “The Meaning of a Word.”
©2018 Ijeoma Oluo (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Critic Reviews
"Narrator Bahni Turpin's impassioned voice clearly conveys the gravity of this book on race and racism.... Key points are repeated to help listeners absorb ideas and definitions, and Turpin engagingly reads real-life examples Oluo uses to illustrate complex concepts such as intersectionality and white privilege." (AudioFile)
A must read
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10/10 recommend
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As a white person I had to agree that I was raised in a ‘white supremacist’ culture and that I am still mired in the cultural conditioning of racism.
This isn’t a book that will give you any place to hide and pretend. I am grateful for that.
Being part of positive change is a commitment to progressive evolution of personal and cultural attitudes. You start by cutting the BS about your own role. A
An essential perspective
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The more I listened the more I realised why people of colour feel the way they do and the systemic racism I’m not exposed to. I realised the ways I have unconsciously done and said the wrong thing. There are times when we need someone to point out we’ve done the wrong thing in order to change. This book does that in spades.
This is not an easy read but it is a necessary read for all of us. There are lessons galore if you’re willing to listen and learn. I would love to see this as a dialogue starter in school.
A necessary read
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I didn’t know I was uncomfortable having discussions about race. As a brown Polynesian woman I have to admit - sometimes it’s hard work & just easier to find ways to make people who I believe have acted in a racist way, feel okay.
I know people are racist, I know we live with systemically racist systems, I know people don’t want us to highlight it, talk about it, or express it - but because it makes people uncomfortable I tone it down. Not a shocking realisation, just a sad truth.
I found it hard to read the book because it felt like an angry read but by the end I started to understand - how it’s said, when it’s said & who is saying it doesn’t matter, just listen & genuinely try to understand.
I need a few days to process this book - but I do recommend it to others, you just need to be prepared ti feel disrupted.
A confronting & challenging read
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For Champions of Equality & Justice
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If it feels like its a lot, its because it's true
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Must listen for all educators, parents… actually all people
Informative and honest
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I suppose it's also a useful insight into the articles of faith of this new religion of intersectionality and critical theory. it certainly gives plenty of example of things we must believe on faith, and it does make a fair point about refraining from the use of the n word.
aside from that, this book is of very little real value. It's littered with unsupported assertions, anecdotes (in which the very worst of human nature is automatically assumed), and some of the boldest examples of black and white thinking I've seen. no reasonable person should accept the authors "either this proves the most absurd and extreme claim imaginable (e.g. all black people are less intelligent than other races), OR undeniable proof of racism and white supremacy" approach to analysing anecdotal evidence, or the findings of mysterious "studies" that are never elaborated upon.
seriously, if you genuinely want to do something worthwhile, start by listening to thinkers such as Coleman Hughes, Glenn Lowry and John McWhorter. they all happen to have the correct amount of melanin to be allowed an opinion on this topic, and they also deliver a much more fact based, realistic and intellectually honest approach to race relations.
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