Research Catalog

Title

Mediocre : the dangerous legacy of white male America / Ijeoma Oluo.

Author

Oluo, Ijeoma

Publication

• New York : Seal Press, 2020.
• ©2020

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

vii, 318 pages : portrait; 25 cm

Summary

A history of American white male identity by the author of "So You Want to Talk About Race" imagines a merit-based, non-discriminating model while exposing the actual costs of successes defined by racial and sexual dominance. What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? Oluo shows how, throughout the last 150 years of American history, white male supremacy has wrought devastating consequences for people of color, women and nonbinary people, and white men themselves. She shows that the erasure and oppression of everyone else in America causes racist and sexist behavior, and imagines the possibilities for a new white male identity, free from racism and sexism. -- Adapted from jacket.

Subjects

• Privilege (Social psychology)
• Male domination (Social structure)
• United States
• Men, White
• Black author
• Privilege (Social psychology) > United States > History
• Race relations
• Men, White > United States
• History
• Informational works
• Male domination (Social structure) > United States > History
• United States > Race relations > History

Genre/Form

• History.
• Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Works according to design -- Cowboys and patriots: how the West was won -- For your benefit, in our image: the centering of white men in social justice movements -- The Ivy League and the tax eaters: white men's assault on higher education -- We have far too many Negroes: white America's bitter dependency on people of color -- Fire the women: the convenient use and abuse of women in the workplace -- Socialists and quota queens: when women of color challenge the political status quo -- Go fucking play: football and the fear of black men -- Conclusion: Can white manhood be more than this?

Call Number

Sc E 21-1149

ISBN

• 1580059511
• 9781580059510

LCCN

2020944625

OCLC

1221004917

Author

Oluo, Ijeoma, author.

Title

Mediocre : the dangerous legacy of white male America / Ijeoma Oluo.

Publisher

New York : Seal Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-1149

JFE 21-1388