A review by xanthe
White Fragility / Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria / So You Want to Talk About Race: 3 Books Collection Set by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ijeoma Oluo, Robin DiAngelo

5.0

This book should be essential reading for our current times. Ijeoma Oluo is matter-of-fact and painfully honest, taking the reader (most likely a white person, but not assumed to be so) through many of the concepts and responses to our modern discourse on race and racism. She includes a lot of personal stories and doesn't shy away from the pain she has experienced which I was very grateful for even as I marveled at her willingness to lay herself bare for the reader. We should all follow her example to examine our own actions and histories with as much honesty and strive for her level of empathy and bravery.