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MediocreIjeoma Oluo
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Mediocre

336 pagesFirst published 20206 editions
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A history of American white male identity by the author of "So You Want to Talk About Race" imagines a merit-based, non-discriminating model while exposing the actual costs of successes defined by racial and sexual dominance. What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? Oluo shows how, throughout the last 150 years of American history, white male supremacy has wrought devastating consequences for people of color, women and nonbinary people, and white men themselves. She shows that the erasure and oppression of everyone else in America…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionMurray Press, John2022—9781529353839
EditionMurray Press, John2021—9781529353792
PaperbackSeal Press20213369781580059527
HardcoverSeal Press20203529781580059510
EditionBasic Books20203369781580059503
AudiobookHachette B and Blackstone Publishing202019781549136955
New York Times reviewedWhites, historyMen, historySocial structureUnited states, race relationsWhite MenMale domination (Social structure)History