Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Ijeoma Oluo

Dec 2020 · Sold by Seal Press

About this ebook

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an  “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.

What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?

Through the last 150 years of American history -- from the post-reconstruction South and the mythic stories of cowboys in the West, to the present-day controversy over NFL protests and the backlash against the rise of women in politics -- Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism.

As provocative as it is essential, this book will upend everything you thought you knew about American identity and offers a bold new vision of American greatness.

Ratings and reviews

Why are you trying to shape and change people? Especially entire races. There has never been a person in history who has wanted to change an entire race of people and have it turn out positively. What if another race decided that they felt that black people would be more sucessful in the world if they went under corrective social changes and mental ones as you suggest that white people take in. Would that not be racist? Would that not change an entire race, an entire culture and just abolish and cancel them out? There is dangerous messages being spread, you have that right at least.

the negative reviews only prove the author's point. the reality is this: those who are part of the dominant group do not know nor do they want to know who they are. the identity developed has been in antagonism to the potential of untold billions throughout generations and the in 21st century those of us who have been marked as inferior are showing that we refuse to bear this indignity any longer. we are telling those who refuse to live without whiteness that they are now and have always been wrong. on trying to regress to protect themselves they have only made their self imposed demise all the .ore inevitable. the Citizens of Global Majority can will and must assert their rightful Humanity against those who continue to deny it by any means necessary. whiteness as an ideology is a threat to every Human being on the planet.this systems days are numbered and this infantile attempts at retrenchment will end in self inflicted extinction as it should.

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About the author

Ijeoma Oluo is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race. Her work on race has been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post. She was named to the 2021 Time 100 Next list, has twice been named to The Root  100, and received the Harvard Humanist of the Year award. She lives in Seattle, Washington.