From the bestselling author comes an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.
In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk about Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. In Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, she discussed the ways in which white male supremacy has had an impact on our systems, our culture, and our lives throughout American history.
But now that we better understand these systems of oppression, the question is this: What can we do about them?
With this book, Oluo shows how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems—like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more—she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the listener can find entryways into change in these same areas or can bring some of this important work being done elsewhere to where they live.
This book aims to not only be educational but also inspire action and change. Oluo wishes to take our conversations on race and racism out of a place of pure pain and trauma and into a place of loving action.
Be a Revolution is both an urgent chronicle of this important moment in history, as well as an inspiring and restorative call for action.
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