Skewering political pundits who contend that white men’s needs still must be catered to in an increasingly diverse country, Oluo asks, “If white men are finding that the overwhelmingly white-male-controlled system isn’t meeting their needs, how did we end up being the problem?” Erudite yet accessible, grounded in careful research as well as Oluo’s personal experiences of racism and misogyny, this is an essential reckoning with race, sex, and power in America. Through the last 150 years of American history - from the post-Reconstruction South and the mythic stories of cowboys, 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. Her argument is notgiven the ubiquity of this phenomenonthat white men are inherently mediocre. Mediocre is another amazing book' TREVOR NOAH on The Daily Show.

Surveying American history through the lens of white male entitlement, Oluo reexamines the actions and legacies of Wild West performer Buffalo Bill Cody, early–20th century “socialist feminists” Floyd Dell and Max Eastman, and segregationist NFL team owner George P. Mediocre traces structural and cultural histories of how white men have been conditioned to expect to (artificially) feel superior, a dynamic that perpetuates mediocrity.

to “the brink of social and political disaster” in the Trump era, Oluo writes, and led to the devaluing of a college education, the promotion of leadership styles that hurt businesses, and the marginalization of policy issues that primarily affect communities of color, including police brutality and gerrymandering. Freelance writer Oluo ( So You Want to Talk About Race) contends in this incisive treatise that American society revolves around “preserving white male power regardless of white male skill or talent.” This privileging of white male mediocrity has brought the U.S.

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