' ― Phoebe Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of You Can't Touch My Hair 'Simply put: Ijeoma Oluo is a necessary voice and intellectual for these times, and any time, truth be told. In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from police brutality and cultural appropriation to the model minority myth in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race, and about how racism infects every aspect of American life.

How do you tell your boss her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law hang up on you when you had questions about police reform? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend? Still, the task ahead seems daunting, and it’s hard to know where to start. The stakes for transformative conversations about race could not be higher. Protests against racial injustice and white supremacy have galvanized millions around the world. It's well written and easy to read, even though it deals with a difficult and, for some, awkward topic.In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in America While the focus of this book is about the discrimination of people of colour, particularly black people, in America, discrimination happens worldwide on many equally banal grounds and all the tips in this book can help us understand and improve on those systems as well. The book also has a lot of helpful tips, ideas, and strategies-particularly for those from a privileged position who want to help in a cause they might have been blind to and want to learn. After that each chapter is a question like “What is cultural appropriation?” along with the answer. The books explains what racism is in detail, not just a cold concise dictionary definition, but a definition of someone who has both studied and experienced it. Now, as the world is struggling to become more aware, this book is important for helping people who want to have conversations with black people but want to do so in a sensitive manner.

Race is a sensitive issue worldwide as people are often treated as members of their race rather than looked at as individuals. ' So You Want to Talk About Race' by Ijeoma Oluo is a book that is hugely significant in current times.

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