READ. THIS. BOOK. For real, you need to read this book. I honestly don’t think my review will do this book justice but I’m going to try to describe how I’m feeling after reading this. This book is so well written and was really hard to put down. This book taught me more within the first chapter than I think I learned in any of my K-12 history classes. I got this book from the library but wish I owned a copy so I could annotate it! I have like 60 photos of passages I loved and wanted to keep forever. The three chapters that I really loved / learned the most from were:⠀
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-The Ivy League and the Tax Eaters ⠀
-Socialists and Quota Queens ⠀
-Go F*cking Play ⠀
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But really, you will learn something new on every single page of this book. You will get angry, get upset, and feel just about every emotion that you can during this book. Ijeoma Oluo is a fantastic author and I have had So You Want To Talk About Race on hold at my library for so long & im finally next in line for it. I can’t wait to read more of her work because she has such a way with the words she writes. I can’t even explain it but if you read it I think you’ll get what I mean!! ⠀
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Seriously, read this book