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Ijeoma Oluo

출생: December 30, 1980 – Denton, Texas, United States

Ijeoma Oluo is an American writer and speaker whose work examines race, identity, gender, and social justice. She is best known for So You Want to Talk About Race and also wrote Mediocre and Be a Revolution, helping bring conversations about systemic inequality and intersectionality to broad mainstream audiences.

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Ijeoma Oluo emerged from a life that taught her early how power works. Born in Texas and raised in the Seattle suburbs, she has described growing up as a Black girl with a Nigerian father and a white American mother in overwhelmingly white schools and neighborhoods, where race was impossible to ignore. Much of her youth was shaped by economic precarity and by the vigilance that came with being hypervisible. Before writing became her public vocation, she worked in tech and digital marketing, raised children as a single mother for much of her adult life, and completed her political science degree at Western Washington University in 2007, entering college later than many of her peers. ((https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/where-ijeoma-finds-inspiration/))

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I am an angry black woman
-We Must Name Our Anger
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Claim your anger
-We Must Name Our Anger
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Give it a name
-We Must Name Our Anger
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My anger is righteous and true
-We Must Name Our Anger
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NOBODY ASKED YOU
-How Non-Black People Can Talk About Kanye While Staying in their Lane
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Your lane is very, very full
-How Non-Black People Can Talk About Kanye While Staying in their Lane
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Silence was not helping me. It was killing me
-White supremacists 'swatted' my home to silence me. I will not be silent
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I hear you, I see you
-White supremacists 'swatted' my home to silence me. I will not be silent
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Water is life
-Why I stand in solidarity with the Dakota pipeline protesters

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"Simply put: Ijeoma Oluo is a necessary voice and intellectual for these times, and any time, truth be told"

Phoebe Robinson

"Everyone should be paying attention to Ijeoma Oluo"

The Root

"In her illuminating new book, Ijeoma Oluo unpacks how 'mediocrity' is a privilege created and perpetuated by our obsession with white male superiority"

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"Ijeoma Oluo's intellectual clarity and moral sure-footedness make her the kind of unstoppable force that obliterates the very concept of immovable objects"

Lindy West

"Ijeoma Oluo has emerged as one of Seattle's strongest voices for social justice"

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"Ijeoma Oluo is armed with words"

Hari Kondabolu

"There is no one more adept at parsing the toxic effects of white male privilege and systemic oppression than the immensely talented Ijeoma Oluo"

Michael Eric Dyson

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