So You Want to Talk About Race

by

Ijeoma Oluo

So You Want to Talk About Race Symbols

Cancer

Author Ijeoma Oluo compares oppression in U.S. society to various forms of cancer. In symbolizing oppression like this, she makes two important claims: first, that there are many forms of oppression in U.S. society, just…

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Machine

In So you wanna talk about race, Oluo compares systemic racism to a machine that churns out racists and oppresses people of color just by functioning. Oluo says that people who know the machine…

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