Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the Worldand How You Can, Too [Paperback]

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From the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofSo You Want to Talk About RaceandMediocre,an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.

In the #1New York TimesbestsellerSo You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. InMediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, she discussed the ways in which white male supremacy has had an impact on our systems, our culture, and our lives throughout American history. But now that we better understand these systems of oppression, the question is this: What can wedoabout them?

With Be A Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the Worldand How You Can, Too, Oluo aims to show how people across America are using community organizing to create real positive change in ourstructures. Looking at many of our most powerful systemslike education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and moreshe highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the reader can find entryways into this essential social justice work, or can bring some of this important work being done elsewhere to where they live.

This book aims to not only be educational, but to inspire real change. Oluo wishes to take our conversations on race and racism out of a place of pure pain and trauma, and into a place of loving, transformative action. Be A Revolutionis both an urgent chronicle of this important moment in history, as well as an inspiring and restorative call to action against systemic racism.

Drawing on extensive interviews with grassroots organizers,Be a Revolutionprovides a practical toolkit for change, exploring actionable strategies in areas like: