So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo tackles the nuanced reality of today's racial landscape in this ground-breaking book, covering everything from systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement to white privilege and police brutality. Oluo provides readers with the clear guidance they need to help dismantle the racial divide.

Ijeoma Oluo, Editor at Large of The Establishment, provides a modern, approachable perspective on the state of race relations in America in her book So You Want to Talk About Race. Oluo tackles issues like privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, microaggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the use of the "N" word. Positioned to effectively bridge the gap between Americans of colour and white Americans grappling with racial complexity, Oluo provides solutions to issues readers are afraid to ask and clarifies ideas that still baffle regular Americans.

Oluo is a brilliant writer who has the uncommon ability to handle delicate, hot-button problems in America in a plain, amusing, and efficient manner. Her words are intense yet well-balanced, giving concepts that might otherwise be hazy a sudden, crystal-clear clarity. The literary style of the author evokes the voices of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, Jessica Valenti in Full Frontal Feminism, and a youthful Gloria Naylor, especially in the latter's influential essay "The Meaning of a Word."