Mediocre

The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power

By: Ijeoma Oluo

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Paperback | 17 December 2025 | Edition Number 1

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From the TIME 100 author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity - now with a new preface.

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.

About the Author

Ijeoma Oluo is the author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race. Her work on race has been featured in Guardian, New York Times and the Washington Post. She received the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award from the American Humanist Association. Ijeoma was named on the 2021 TIME 100 list of 'Emerging Leaders Who Are Shaping the Future'. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Industry Reviews

**PRAISE FOR SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE** - *

Impassioned and unflinching - Vogue

Insightful and trenchant - Publisher's Weekly

In order to dismantle white supremacy, we must be able to clearly name it . . . Oluo answers some of the most common questions we hear from white people about racism - Guardian

A clear and candid contribution to an essential conversation - Kirkus

Generous and empathetic, yet usefully blunt...it's for anyone who wants to be smarter and more empathetic about matters of race and engage in more productive anti-racist action - Salon.com

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