In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from police brutality and cultural appropriation to the model minority myth in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race, and about how racism infects every aspect of American ...

Oluo thinks that people shouldn't isolate race as society's only problem, but they shouldn't ignore it either. They need to think about race like one piece of a “machine.” Oluo says that the world often tells people color that they're wrong about what they're experiencing and feeling in their own lives.

Talking about race starts with personal reflection: When were you first aware of your race? What do you remember from childhood about how you made sense of human differences? What confused you? What childhood experiences did you have with friends or adults who were different from you in some way?