In devastating example after example, from the mythical “Buffalo Bill” Cody and the destruction of the actual buffalo and Indigenous communities, through the Great Migration and the Great Depression, right up through the current state of higher education, housing policy, electoral politics, and even professional sports, Oluo shows how White male supremacy has shaped-and continues to shape-our lives.
It’s precisely why Oluo was compelled to write her new book, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, which traces the through lines of White male supremacy and the havoc it has wreaked on this country and our people for generations. The only way to break free is to understand what we’re up against. And more than two hundred years later, Oluo argues, the tragic bargain exerts deadly force. But that notion wasn’t unique to the South. In the book, Oluo identifies white male supremacy as “America’s oldest pyramid scheme.” White Southern elites assured poor white men that, despite being bit players in a system of oppression from which they reaped very little financial reward, they would always have more power and status than women or people of color. The publication of So You Want to Talk About Race in 2018, the #1 New York Times Bestseller with more than 500,000 copies in print, resulted in Seattle-based author Ijeoma Oluo emerging as a leading commentator and expert on racial justice issues. Parent Company: Seal Press Read a Description of Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America Book Description: List Price: $28.00 Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List.
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