Oluo lays out a sweeping cultural history of white men failing upward, from education to sports to politics. There is levity and voice in Mediocre.”- Washington Post
But she is also inviting us, on occasion, to chuckle. Oluo is asking us to evaluate the myths America tells itself about itself, see the violence within, be honest about the perpetrators and the victims, and then tell different stories. "A conversational call to action, an urging to rewrite our definition of White manhood and diminish the power it holds…. “Wide-ranging in the cultural history it provides, Mediocre illuminates the various ways white men work to maintain racial power.”- New York Times Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism.Īs 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. 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. 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? 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.
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