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Ijeoma Oluo (ee-joh-mah oh-loo-oh) is a writer, speaker and internet yeller. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race and most recently, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America. Her work on race has been featured in The Guardian, The New York Times and The Washington Post, among many other publications. She was named to the 2021 TIME 100 Next list and has twice been named to the Root 100. She received the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award and the 2020 Harvard Humanist of the Year Award from the American Humanist Association. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
Use the links below to find the author's website and social media pages on various platforms.
Source Citation: Oluo, Ijeoma. "Press, Articles, and Reviews." Ijeoma Oluo, www.ijeomaoluo.com/press. Accessed 30 June 2021.
Image Credit: Oluo, Ijeoma. "Media Kit." Ijeoma Oluo, www.ijeomaoluo.com/press. Accessed 30 June 2021.
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"From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity."
Source citation: Seal Press. "Mediocre :The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America." Seal Press, Hachette Book Group, www.sealpress.com/titles/ijeoma-oluo/mediocre/9781580059510/. Accessed 30 June 2021.
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America.
In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to “model minorities” in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
Source citation: Seal Press. "So You Want to Talk About Race." Seal Press, Hachette Book Group, https://www.sealpress.com/titles/ijeoma-oluo/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race/9781541619227/. Accessed 30 June 2021.
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