So You Want to Talk About Race (2018) was Oluo’s first book, followed in 2020 by Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America.Ī skilled public speaker, Oluo has appeared on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah and The Opposition With Jordan Klepper.
She wrote So You Want to Talk About Race as a handbook for people who want to have productive conversations about race in the United States. Self-described “writer, speaker and internet yeller” Ijeoma Oluo worked for many years in the tech industry, where she was often the only black person in the room. as a white supremacist society reminds the reader that systemic racism is the ultimate source of these difficulties and problems.1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of So You Want to Talk About Race Oluo’s feeling of dread again stresses the emotional burden of talking about racism as a person of color, and her description of the U.S. Oluo thinks it’s important to be sensitive to these differences when talking about race, acknowledge that everybody’s lived-experience is valid, and avoid assuming that one person’s experience is the same as another’s (which is what her mother initially does).
This means that a person whose situation is slightly different has different experiences with racism (like Oluo’s mother, who has mixed-race children but isn’t black herself). In making this point, Oluo reemphasizes the intersectional nature of her experience with racism: she’s oppressed as a person of color but also somewhat privileged as a light-skinned person of color. This means that people who think they “get it” probably still have things to learn. Oluo warns her readers not to confuse knowing black people with “being an actual black person” who lives with racism day in and day out.
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