From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.

In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for  how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. In Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, she discussed the ways in which white male supremacy has had an impact on our systems, our culture, and our lives throughout American history. But now that we better understand these systems of oppression, the question is this: What can we do about them?

With  Be A Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World-and How You Can, Too, Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems-like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more-she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the reader can find entryways into change in these same areas, or can bring some of this important work being done elsewhere to where they live.

This book aims to not only be educational, but to inspire action and change. Oluo wishes to take our conversations on race and racism out of a place of pure pain and trauma, and into a place of loving action.  Be A Revolution is both an urgent chronicle of this important moment in history, as well as an inspiring and restorative call for action.

‘One of the most admired writers and “internet yellers” around… [Mediocre is] ever more vital… Oluo’s meeting the time — this movement against white supremacy and systems of oppression. But the question she keeps asking in her work: Are we?’ IBRAM X KENDI

‘Mediocre paints an urgent, honest picture of how white male identity has spawned unrest in the country’s political ideology… It’s a necessary read for the world we live in’ CHIDOZIE OBASI, Harper’s Bazaar

‘[Ijeoma’s] books don’t come from a place of hate, but of determination to make change… [Mediocre is] another amazing book’ TREVOR NOAH on The Daily Show

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 colour, instead of actual accomplishments?

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 white male supremacy on women, people of colour, and white men themselves.

As provocative as it is essential, Mediocre investigates the real costs of white male power in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism.
‘[An] analytical and compassionate book’ New Statesman

‘Deftly combines history and sociological study with personal narrative, and the result is both uncomfortable and illuminating’ Washington Post

‘Ijeoma’s sharp yet accessible writing about the American racial landscape made her 2018 book So You Want to Talk About Race an invaluable resource . . . Mediocre builds on this exemplary work, homing in on the role of white patriarchy in creating and upholding a system built to disenfranchise anyone who isn’t a white male’ TIME