Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too
Ijeoma OluoIn 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 & 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, & 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 Be A Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression & Changing the World—& How You Can, Too, Oluo aims to show 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, & more—she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the reader 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 to inspire action & change. Oluo wishes to take our conversations on race & racism out of a place of pure pain & trauma, & 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 & restorative call for action.
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Ijeoma Oluo is a writer, speaker, & 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 has been featured in the Guardian, the New York Times, & the Washington Post.