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  • Be a Revolution

  • How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too
  • By: Ijeoma Oluo
  • Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
  • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)

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Be a Revolution

By: Ijeoma Oluo
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.

In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. In Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, she discussed the ways in which white male supremacy has had an impact on our systems, our culture, and our lives throughout American history. But now that we better understand these systems of oppression, the question is this: What can we do about them?

With Be A Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too, Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems—like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more—she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the listener can find entryways into change in these same areas, or can bring some of this important work being done elsewhere to where they live.

This book aims to not only be educational, but to inspire action and change. Oluo wishes to take our conversations on race and racism out of a place of pure pain and trauma, and into a place of loving action. Be A Revolution is both an urgent chronicle of this important moment in history, as well as an inspiring and restorative call for action.

©2023 Ijeoma Oluo (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers
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A galvanizing chronicle of antiracist work
I look forward to anything from Ijeoma Oluo because she says what we need to hear, when we need to hear it. Her previous bestsellers, 2018’s So You Want to Talk About Race and 2020’s Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, crystallized the nation’s deep-rooted issues of racism and injustice into powerful, understandable concepts that captured the zeitgeist. Her new audiobook, which arrives as many of us are feeling frustrated by the lack of change since the racial reckonings of 2020, explores the meaningful progress that is being made by principled activists. And though their stories often have an undercurrent of burnout and frustration, the most vivid theme running through them is love. Profiling changemakers in policing, prisons, education, health, housing, and more, Oluo contagiously conveys their spirited resistance while locating their work in history, providing community models and inspiration for anyone looking to take their concern, anger, and pain to a place of loving action. —Kat J., Audible Editor

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The author gives each of us very clear ways to Be A Revolution

Some books that lay the groundwork for understanding issues leave us overwhelmed. Be A Revolution takes the reader through important areas where racism and other oppressions are embedded - and then gives us really clear and doable actions to be a part of the change.

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Easy, attainable ways to make change!

I love all of Ijeoma’s work but this one takes the cake! To the steps provided, people interviewed, examples of action taken in communities, this is a gift to us all to be better humans on this planet. Thank you for your work, Ijeoma.

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