Why I No Longer Talk to White People About Race

Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race

I'm no longer engaging with white people on the topic of race. Not all white people, just the vast majority who refuse to accept the legitimacy of structural racism and its symptoms... You can see their eyes shut down and harden. It's like treacle is poured into their ears, blocking up their ear canals. It's like they can no longer hear us.

In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it. She posted a piece on her blog, entitled: 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race'.

Her words hit a nerve. The post went viral and comments flooded in from others desperate to speak up about their own experiences. Galvanised by this clear hunger for open discussion, she decided to dig into the source of these feelings.

Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance, whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class and race, Reni Eddo-Lodge offers a timely and essential new framework for how to see, acknowledge and counter racism.

It is a searing, illuminating, absolutely necessary exploration of what it is to be a person of colour in Britain today.

From the Publisher, Bloomsbury

Reni Eddo-Lodge (born 25 September 1989) is a British journalist and author, whose writing primarily focuses on feminism and exposing structural racism. She has written for a range of publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Voice, BuzzFeed, Vice, i-D and Dazed & Confused,^[1] and is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.^[2][3] In June 2020, Eddo-Lodge's debut book, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (published in 2017), rose 155 places to top the UK non-fiction paperback chart, at the same time as Bernardine Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other topped the paperback fiction chart, the first time books by black British women headed both charts.^[4][5] On 16 June 2020 she became the first black British woman to be No. 1 overall in the British book charts. -Wikpedia

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