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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

★ BookTube Prize ★ Hurston / Wright Foundation Legacy Award Nonfiction

Ijeoma Oluo uses Mediocre to investigate the Dangerous Legacy of White Male America through a carefully framed historical account. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of business & economics and political science. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning. Historical context and individual experience remain equally important to the book's explanation.

Publisher: Seal Press
Publication date: Dec 01, 2020
Format: Print edition
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781580059510

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Business & Economics: Economic History Political Science: Corruption & Misconduct Social Science: Feminism & Feminist Theory

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