From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So
You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New
York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.
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.