So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo
Nonfiction - 305.8009 Olu

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.


Antiracist Reading List

  • How to be Less Stupid About Race : on Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide


  • They Were Her Property : White Women as Slave Owners in the American South


  • How We Fight White Supremacy : a Field Guide to Black Resistance


  • Stony the Road : Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow


  • Towards Collective Liberation : Anti-racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy


  • Hood Feminism : Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot


  • The Color of Compromise : the Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism


  • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir


  • Stamped from the Beginning : the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America


  • Overground Railroad : the Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America


  • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race


  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness


  • How to be an Antiracist


  • So You Want to Talk About Race


  • Me and White Supremacy : Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor


  • "Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" : and Other Conversations About Race


  • White Rage : the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide


  • How We Get Free : Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective


  • The Color of Law : a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America


  • The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness