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'So You Want to Talk About Race' Is Back on the Bestseller List. Ijeoma Oluo Wants to Live in a World That Doesn’t Need Her Book

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New York Times a shift in Amazon’s bestseller list. Seven of the top 10 books, it noted, focused on race and anti-racism work.

One of them was a title that’s shown up in dozens of guides for anti-racist readers and Instagram roundups the world over: Ijeoma Oluo’s .Released in 2018, the book was intended to be a primer on such entrenched injustices as and mass incarceration.

If it were up to Oluo, it would be irrelevant in 2020.“It’s bittersweet,” Oluo explains, of the recent attention. It’s true that she wrote the book for the exact audience it’s found these past few weeks—white readers who want to interrogate their own biases. “But the bitter part,” she adds, “is that a lot of lives have been lost while we’ve been trying so hard to get.

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