emminkirjakasa's review against another edition
5.0
Suosittelen tätä isosti jokaiselle valkoiselle.
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Slavery
Moderate: Sexual harassment, Ableism, and Rape
Minor: Fire/Fire injury and War
withlivjones's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Slavery and Racism
Moderate: Colonisation, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Rape, Classism, Death, Hate crime, and Misogyny
zaracampbell's review against another edition
5.0
Issues with systematic racism in the UK must be spotlighted: our education system asks us to look to the American civil rights movement to study the impacts of racism, distancing ourselves from any possibility that racism could have been so prevalent in our country.
Reni writes very powerfully, unapologetically and with conviction.
Graphic: Xenophobia, Racism, and Racial slurs
Moderate: Islamophobia and Slavery
timetotalkbeauty's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Slavery, Cultural appropriation, and Racism
gayelfboi's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Classism, Xenophobia, Grief, Genocide, Colonisation, Slavery, Police brutality, and Murder
Moderate: Trafficking, Islamophobia, Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Murder, Sexual violence, Sexism, Rape, Mass/school shootings, and Forced institutionalization
parasolcrafter's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Hate crime, Homophobia, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Violence, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Racism, Genocide, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Murder, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Death, and Deportation
mengzhenreads's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Slavery and Racism
Moderate: Racial slurs, Death, Murder, and Rape
Minor: Ableism, Misogyny, and Sexism
sakisreads's review against another edition
5.0
Now this is a PHENOMENAL book. It is hard hitting and informative. I had so many moments of anger and sadness throughout, but also a determination to address the prejudices I have in my own life. I have been struggling to find a sustainable way to address people’s racism, so Reni Eddo-Lodge talking about towards the end of the book that was impactful to me. I don’t feel that I have the eloquence to discuss what this book meant to me, so I’m including some of the text here that I really appreciated 😳
(Page 79) Opposing positive discrimination based on apprehensions about getting the best person for the job means inadvertently revealing what you think talent looks like, and the kind of person in which you think talent resides.
(Page 92) (White privilege) eases you into letting your guard down with white people, assured you’ll be taken seriously, but simultaneously not being surprised when a conversation highlights your differences against your white peers.
(Page 201) It’s worth questioning exactly who wins from the suggestion that the only working-class people worth of compassion are white, or that it’s black and ethnic minority people who are holding scant resources at the expense of white working-class people who are losing out.
A must read for anybody and everybody ✨
Graphic: Misogyny, Classism, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racism, Slavery, Colonisation, and Racial slurs
keeganrb's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery
Moderate: Murder, Death, and Rape
Minor: Ableism
prettynerdy3's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Classism, Grief, Islamophobia, and Slavery