"This is a book
that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands
a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential."
--Marlon James
“The most
important book for me this year.” -Emma Watson
Selected by Emma
Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for January/February
2018
Sunday Times
Bestseller
Winner of the
British Book Awards Nonfiction Narrative Book of the Year
Winner of the Jhalak
Prize
Foyles Nonfiction
Book of the Year
Blackwell's
Nonfiction Book of the Year
Named One of the
Best Books of 2017 by:
NPR
The Guardian
The Observer
The Brooklyn Rail
Cultured Vultures
Award-winning
journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that
discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it,
by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No
Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the
conversation both in Britain and around the world. Examining
everything from eradicated black history to the political purpose of
white dominance, from whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link
between class and race, Eddo-Lodge offers a timely and essential new
framework for how to see, acknowledge, and counter racism. Including
a new afterword by the author, this is a searing, illuminating,
absolutely necessary exploration of what it is to be a person of
color in Britain today, and an essential handbook for anyone looking
to understand how structural racism works.
