![]() ![]() “Why can’t I touch your hair?” or “I just got called racist, now what do I do?”), although Oluo does directly address people of color as well throughout the book. The book contains seventeen short chapters averaging about 7-12 pages each, all (save the introduction, which repeats the title) titled in the form of questions, most of which suggest a White intended audience (e.g. In the sense that it is written in extremely clear, plain language and scaffolded logically, it was a very easy book to read in pieces in this fashion. ![]() ![]() I read So You Want to Talk About Race over the course of a day of traveling - on the airplane, in the airport, and at our destination. The author is a writer and speaker whose work on race has been published in a range of prominent and widely-read venues. This bestselling, mass market book was written, Oluo writes in her preface to the paperback edition, to offer “the basic, often unsexy fundamentals” needed “to understand race better, and how to talk about race more effectively, and with more kindness” (xii-iii). Title: So You Want to Talk About Race (published in 2018 $11 available to purchase HERE ) For more on the series and a full list of texts, see here. This is the sixth entry in our dialogic pedagogy summer reading series. ![]()
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