![]() ![]() Wake of the massive protests for racial inequality this year there was the huge drive for books on anti-racism. I first had my mind given a good shake by this book last year but I decided it was long overdue a reread and today I want to do something a bit different. Why was it happening for the first time in 2020? (a shameful 6% of authors published in the UK are people of colour, so it’s not actually that surprising)Īnd how was it possible that so many white people were just waking up to the existence of racism now? It was an achievement about which she felt an understandable amount of conflict. ![]() Though the book was a massive deal when it first came out, following the murder of George Floyd, it flew back up the charts, and in June, Eddo-Lodge became the first Black Brit to top the best seller list. ![]() Through chapters on subjects including Black British history (and its erasure), systemic racism in institutions like the police, education and sport, feminism and the relationship between race and class, Eddo-Lodge delves into the racist structures that British society is built on and the ways they are upheld by a society that has chosen to avert its eyes. ![]() Reni Eddo-Lodge’s 2017 book Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race is a thorough and confronting analysis of race relations in Britain today. ![]()
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