MEDIOCRE

From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race (105k copies sold in hardcover + e-book) a history of white male America and a scathing indictment of what it has cost us socially, economically, and politically.

With the election of Donald Trump, the escalation of white male rage, and increasing hostility toward immigrants, New York Times-bestselling author Ijeoma Oluo found herself in conversation with Americans around the country, pondering one central question: How did we get here?

In this ambitious survey of the last century of American history, Oluo answers that question by pinpointing white men's deliberate efforts to subvert women, people of color, and the disenfranchised. Through research, interviews, and the powerful, personal writing for which she is celebrated, Oluo investigates the backstory of America's growth, from immigrant migration to our national ethos around ingenuity, from the shaping of economic policy to the protection of socio-political movements that fortify male power. In the end, she shows how white men have long maintained a stranglehold on leadership, and sorely undermined the pursuit of happiness for all.

Ijeoma Oluo is the New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race, which Seal has just published in paperback. Her writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Elle, Time, the Stranger, and the Guardian, among others. Named one of the Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017 and one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle magazine, she lives in Seattle, Washington.