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Ijeoma Oluo on laughing and crying while reading
By Amy Sutherland Globe Correspondent,Updated March 4, 2021, 2:28 p.m.
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Ijeomo Oluo, a Nigerian-American writer, is the author of So You Want to Talk About Race.
In her newest book, âMediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America,â Ijeoma Oluo recounts and examines how the idea that white men deserve power is perpetuated and its effects on everyone. The Seattle native is also the author of the best-selling âSo You Want to Talk About Race.â She joins the Lowell Humanities Series for a virtual talk at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24 via
To celebrate Memoir March, we spoke to the authors of this spring’s most exciting memoirs about their research processes, writing roadblocks and biggest fears as they put their personal stories out into the world. Louis Chude-Sokei shares some of the joys and difficulties behind his book,
Floating in a Most Peculiar Way, about negotiating what it means to be African in Jamaica and the United States.
What do you love most about your book?
I love that I was able to fit so much life into such a compact space while still being true to all that I couldn’t keep in. With a memoir, you want to be true to the experiences you are conveying, but at the same time you want your particular vision as a writer to come through. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that those things could still occur after cutting so much out.
FLOATING IN A MOST PECULIAR WAY By Louis Chude-Sokei
I was about 10 when I found out that my whole life I’d been saying my name wrong. A friend of my father’s an “uncle” had come to town, and my white mom had dressed us up for the occasion in traditional Nigerian dress. My top and wrap skirt were of a gorgeous orange- and red-printed fabric, hand-sewn by a woman from my father’s village in Rivers State. But when this uncle asked me my name, I embarrassed myself and my family by mispronouncing it “Joma.”
“That is not your name,” he replied. “Your name is Ijeoma. You have to know how to say your name. It is a very good Nigerian name.” Suddenly my clothing felt tight and uncomfortable, as if my uncle could see that none of this the clothing or the name fit me.
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