Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller

· Bloomsbury Publishing
3.5
214 reviews
Ebook
272
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'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak'

*Updated edition featuring a new afterword*


The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today.

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION NARRATIVE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR A BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD

Ratings and reviews

3.5
214 reviews
T Gauntlett
January 13, 2018
Incredibly whingy, regressive, neurotic, manifesto. Starts off with the writer's 'pain' at glimpsing a dock built on an area where slave ships plied their trade 200+ years ago. Continues with vague and nebulous accounts (guesses) on what the author assumes (but presents as fact) must motivate the white people the author has interacted with (spoiler, it's racism). An example is a white Uni friend that dropped out of a slave trade elective the author took. This is assumed by the author to be an 'indifference to the facts', 'disinterest' and 'opting out'. People drop out of Uni electives for any number of reasons. Assuming racism and then choosing to take it personally is not the brightest way to respond to this. I'd like to state, for the record, that I am a person of colour (South Asian), an immigrant to a first world nation and that in my experience racism in modern society is incredibly rare and, very much in the eye of the beholder. Yes, racism exists but this book blows it out of all proportion and swings from virtue signalling to libel. Avoid it.
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IG Music
December 30, 2020
Communist theorioes on how to "fix" problems. To destroy history is to repeat it. If you want to destroy a dock just because it was the spot for slave trade x amount of years ago. Say goodbye to more than 1,000 docks, towns countless buildings, world monuments and near damn half the world. The pyramids, built by slaves. The great wall, built by families forcefully seperated then put to work so guess what, slaves. Weiter you like it or not our world today was built by slavery/forced labor. You want to know why? Because thats how things worked for thousands of years. Before we had machines people were the greatest resource and it just happens to be we are easy to control. We have manifested so far from those days yet we get people still clamoring to the idea that everybody hates everybody. Well guess what we do. Its not racism its not prejeduces, its called human nature. Learn about yourself, learn about us. This book will not teach you about unity. Its a creation of division.
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D C
August 17, 2018
Utterly self-indulgent, garrulous soliloquy likely to appeal to those with chronic emotional incontinence and victim mentality. Good luck making it to the end with your sanity intact.
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About the author

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. She is the winner of a Women of the World Bold Moves Award, an MHP 30 to Watch Award and was chosen as one of the Top 30 Young People in Digital Media by the Guardian in 2014. She has also been listed in Elle's 100 Inspirational Women list, and The Root's 30 Black Viral Voices Under 30. She contributed to The Good Immigrant. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race is her first book. It won the 2018 British Book Awards Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year, 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 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Non-Fiction.

renieddolodge.co.uk / @renireni

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