She shows how the idea of the cowboy-popularized by Buffalo Bill Cody and countless westerns-was fundamentally premised on violence and the extermination of Native Americans. The first chapter, for example, examines the legacy of the western colonialism. Mediocre skillfully combines rich history with contemporary political analysis. It’s a book that’s essential for anyone invested in helping to forge an America that’s not designed to work just for white men. That is definitely the case with Ijeoma Oluo’s Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America. Every so often, you come across a book that’s so bracing in its critique, so searing in its political commentary, and so incisive in its historical analysis, that you can’t help but write a gushing review of it.
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