Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Author: Reni Eddo-Lodge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year of Publication: 2018
Print Length: 261 pages
Genre: Essay, Non-Fiction / Popular Science, Social Science, History, Ethnic Studies, Race Studies, Sociology
Area: The United Kingdom (UK)
Topic: Black People, Race, Class, Ethnic & Ethnicity, Gender, Identity, Activism, Solidarity, Social Justice, System, White Privilege, Feminism, Racism, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Decolonization & Anti-Colonization, Slavery, Diversity, Bigotry, Equality & Inequality, Equity & Fairness, History & Origin
In this collection of seven essays, Eddo-Lodge delves into topics like structural racism, class and feminism. But she begins with a crash course in black British history. Despite growing up in London, in school she studied black history through the lens of the American civil rights movement. It wasn’t until she went to university that she learned more about her country’s brutal and extensive participation in the slave trade — which inspired her to learn more about what it was like to be black in post-slavery Britain. She writes about this history with the clarity and approachability of a curious learner sharing what she’s discovered, giving necessary context for everything she’s going to discuss in the rest of the book. And although Why I’m No Longer Talking centers on events in Britain, it’s still accessible to readers of black American history.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Histories
2. The System
3. What is White Privilege?
4. Fear of a Black Planet
5. The Feminism Question
6. Race and Class
7. There’s No Justice, There’s Just Us
Aftermath
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Reni Eddo-Lodge is a London-based, award-winning journalist. She has written for the New York Times, the Voice, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Stylist, Inside Housing, the Pool, Dazed and Confused, and the New Humanist. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race (Bloomsbury, 2017) is her first book. It won the 2018 Jhalak Prize, was chosen as Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year and Blackwell’s Non-Fiction Book of the Year, was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Orwell Prize and shortlisted for the British Book Awards Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Non-Fiction. In 2020, she became the first Black-British author since records began to top the overall Nielsen charts, and in 2021 she received a Nielsen Gold Bestseller Award for sales surpassing 500,000.
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