Mediocre: the Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, Ijeoma Oluo
Book
Historical
Non-fiction
Book
Historical
Non-fiction
Updated: 28 December 2020
| No rape or sexual assault | |
| Rape or sexual assault mentioned in passing (in discussion and/or implied) | |
| Sexual harassment (e.g. verbal or non-consensual touching/grabbing) | |
| Sexual relationship between adult and teenager | |
| Child sexual abuse | |
| Incest | |
| Attempted rape | |
| Rape strongly implied/details surrounding a rape discussed in detail (i.e. the events before/after) | |
| Detailed/vivid description of rape |
Description
The author references the following throughout the book: rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment in the abstract, including statistics; rape against slaves, rape that took place during the Chicago race riots, sexual assault allegations against the comedian Jamie Kilstein, sexual assault allegations by Anita Hill against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sexual harassment experienced by women staffers in the Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, the racist idea that black men's sexuality is out of control and will lead them to rape white women, the use of sensationalised stories of rape in the press to discourage white women from joining the workforce during the Great Depression, and sexual harassment that the author experienced herself.
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