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So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
3.0
So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo, narrated by Bahni Turpin
It was definitely easy to listen to on audiobook. The topics she touches upon are important and complex.
Her chapters on School to Prison Pipeline and Model Minority were really interesting and made several good points. Now I can't stop imagining how young black children are viewed in kindergarten compared to their peers. It angers me.
Oluo's work is important but delivery at times has fallen short. I'm not sure if it's because the audiobook wasn't narrated by her or just her style of writing. (I love Bahni Turpin in other works, one of my favorite narrators). The pros are it’s easy to listen to, read and is conversational. There are points she has in every chapter that can be done in everyday conversation. It’s not enough just to educate yourself. You must speak up and act.
She addressed her white audience in the last chapter. I am not white but I listened anyway. I think it would have been better if she pointed out that all of us are and can be and have been racist in some form or another. We ALL have bias. I know plenty of Vietnamese people who are and it's incredibly hard to talk to them about this topic and #blm. I need to read a book on how to have a conversation with them.
It was definitely easy to listen to on audiobook. The topics she touches upon are important and complex.
Her chapters on School to Prison Pipeline and Model Minority were really interesting and made several good points. Now I can't stop imagining how young black children are viewed in kindergarten compared to their peers. It angers me.
Oluo's work is important but delivery at times has fallen short. I'm not sure if it's because the audiobook wasn't narrated by her or just her style of writing. (I love Bahni Turpin in other works, one of my favorite narrators). The pros are it’s easy to listen to, read and is conversational. There are points she has in every chapter that can be done in everyday conversation. It’s not enough just to educate yourself. You must speak up and act.
She addressed her white audience in the last chapter. I am not white but I listened anyway. I think it would have been better if she pointed out that all of us are and can be and have been racist in some form or another. We ALL have bias. I know plenty of Vietnamese people who are and it's incredibly hard to talk to them about this topic and #blm. I need to read a book on how to have a conversation with them.