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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo

19 reviews

lancemama's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Bullying, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Cultural appropriation, Slavery, Classism, Colonisation, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Violence, Racism, Racial slurs, and Police brutality

Moderate: Cursing, Antisemitism, Gaslighting, Hate crime, and Islamophobia

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

haileybones's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Emotional abuse, Racism, Misogyny, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Mental illness

bayleereads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative tense medium-paced

5.0

Such a powerful and informative book. It really takes "not all men" to a whole new level. I knew a baseline amount of information about white supremacy and male America before listening to this book, but now I understand so much more about our country and the policies put in place to basically paralyze any person in America that isn't a cis male, straight, Christian, and white. Oluo backs up her statements with facts and sources that prove her point even further.

Simply a phenomenal book. I think it should be a required reading for high school or college students in political science courses. But, of course they wouldn't do that, because it's "biased." Can something really be biased though, if it's backed up with immense research and facts? White male supremacy in America is harming pretty much everyone and our country isn't doing a damn thing about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Racial slurs, Racism, Hate crime, Gun violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, and Suicide

perpetualpages's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

CWs: References to sexual harassment, pedophilia, and sexual violence; discussions of white supremacy, racism, police brutality, hate crimes, and (reported) racial and sexual slurs; explorations of genocide, anti-Indigenous violence, war crimes, and chattel slavery; exploration of misogyny, deportation, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and antisemitism; some descriptions of online harassment, domestic terrorism, suicide, and gun violence

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, and Misogyny

Moderate: Islamophobia, Antisemitism, Gun violence, Police brutality, Slavery, and Hate crime

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Suicide

maxgdy's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Sexism, Antisemitism, Police brutality, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Rape, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Xenophobia

rachrreads's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

While I agree with many of the arguments in this book on white male supremacy in America, I found the flow of the book to be hard to follow. This book really just felt like a bunch of essays thrown together with the main points of the argument at the beginning and end.

I learned quite a bit through all these stories/essays though, so that really helped the rating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Colonisation, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, and Xenophobia

junefish's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Racism

Moderate: Ableism and Colonisation

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

traciereads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Bullying, and Hate crime

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Police brutality, Misogyny, Murder, and Slavery

Minor: Antisemitism, Cursing, and Islamophobia

aqtbenz's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Murder, Hate crime, Gun violence, Death, Antisemitism, and Xenophobia

emfass's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Ijeoma Oluo is simply one of the best writers writing today. In both this and So You Want to Talk About Race, she takes very tough and complex issues and makes them accessible. She is thorough and thoughtful and I honestly could have read another 100 pages or more of this book. It was also incredibly impactful to listen to the audiobook and hear Oluo's words in her own voice.

The introduction and conclusion chapters are vibrant and necessary overviews of the violence and harm caused by white male supremacy in the U.S. The chapters in between cover related topics by way of specific stories throughout American history. I deeply appreciated the unpacking of these important moments, and in particular the historic events I've lived through. 

Especially eye-opening to me were:
-the stories of Buffalo Bill and the Bundy brothers (Chapter 1)
-an exploration of Bernie bros (Chapter 2, possibly my favorite section of the book, as it helped put to words so many things I've sensed but didn't know how to say)
-the history of access (or lack thereof) to higher education in the U.S. (Chapter 3)
-the horrific tactics that white people used to try to keep Black people from leaving in the post-Reconstruction South (Chapter 4)
-the "problem" of women in the workforce after World War II (Chapter 5)
-the Squad's political career as women of color in Congress (Chapter 6)
-the racist history of football in the U.S. and the tidal wave of backlash that follows when players (including Colin Kaepernick and Michael Bennett) try to use their voice for change (Chapter 7)

Throughout the book, Oluo also shares many instances of the cruel, unjust, horrifying abuse she has endured as a Black woman writing very visibly about racial, feminist, and social justice issues. She does it not for pity, but I think as firsthand examples of the lengths white men will go to when they feel threatened.

I highly recommend this to everybody.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Xenophobia, Violence, Suicide, Slavery, Sexism, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Murder, Misogyny, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Genocide

Moderate: Antisemitism, Bullying, Sexual assault, Islamophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Excrement