Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy Of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo

The Blurb On The Back:

Introducing:
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power

White men lead our ineffective government with almost guaranteed re-election.

They lead our corrupt and violent criminal justice system with little risk of facing justice themselves.

And they run our increasingly polarised and misinforming media, winning awards for perpetrating the idea that things run best when white men are in charge.

This is not a stroke of white male luck; this is how our white male supremacist systems have been designed to work.

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The Verdict:

Ijeoma Oluo is a journalist and best-selling author. This book draws on US history to provide a devastating examination of the USA’s systems which created and reinforce white, male mediocrity as a means of retaining white power. It is clearly written and makes a lot of interesting points but is very US-centric and although it discusses intersectionality at length, I wondered how much of this is grounded in patriarchy more than in race.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.