Mediocre - bookrastinating.com

Hardcover, 336 pages

Published Dec. 1, 2020 by Seal Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-58005-951-0

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.

(source: Seal …

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.

(source: Seal Press)

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Review of 'Mediocre' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This is absolutely an important topic deserving of study and correction. This book may have as many misses as hits, though. It could have been edited more stringently to avoid repetition and lengthy commentary that is more complaining than action-inspiring.

Of particular interest to me was chapter 6's listing of heinous things white men can do and still hold US political office; a discussion of Shirley Chisholm; and a description of cumulative voting.

abi

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Dec. 18, 2020

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Nov. 23, 2022