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Posts tagged Race Talk

Review: Black Writing for the White Gaze and Taking In "Uncomfortable Conversations"

Is there really a need to read a book that “isn’t for us”? Deborah Harris thinks so. She reviewed “Uncomfortable Conversations” this week to set the record straight.

Book Review, ReadingDeborah HarrisMarch 10, 2021Emmauel Acho, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, Nonfiction, Race Talk, Race Relations Comment

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (Book Review)

So You Want To Talk About Race is a hybrid memoir and guidebook for discussing some of the toughest topics here in the U.S. Oluo uses her history and background to insert common racial topics onto her life, showing how the missteps of the majority population create a challenging world for people with Brown skin. Written to and for non-People of Color, So You Want To Talk About Race cuts to the heart of why this subject is so difficult.

ReadingAntoinette ScullyJuly 18, 2018So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo, Nonfiction, Book Review, Race Talk, Memoir Comments