Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Castas: As Origens do Nosso Descontentamento, by Isabel Wilkerson

10 reviews

arthur_harris's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This book pulls absolutely no punches. It lays out the facts of its subject matter with a kind of frank, unflinching look at the truth that is so constantly softened and blunted in history. Deeply, grimly informative on the true history of the Black experience in the United States. A harsh reality check for those - like me - who grew up with a whitewashed view of American history. While this book is a difficult read in many ways, that is part of what makes it such a necessary one. It forces the reader to examine the deeply ingrained racism baked into the foundation of America, and the subsequent role of the (non-Black) reader in that racist system. An absolutely vital piece of literature. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Police brutality, Child abuse, Cultural appropriation, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Colonisation, Slavery, Blood, Medical trauma, Racism, Child death, and Murder

youreawizardjerry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Physical abuse, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Blood, Bullying, Body horror, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, Gun violence, Death, and Death of parent

horizonous's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Racism, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Violence, Antisemitism, and Slavery

Moderate: Suicide, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Police brutality

Minor: Genocide, Rape, and Medical content

ebrown0789's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

This book was eye-opening. My only complaint is that I felt there were way too many analogies towards the beginning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Slavery

Moderate: Violence, Gore, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Hate crime, Body horror, Child abuse, Genocide, and Physical abuse

Minor: Police brutality

kat_the_librarian's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and Racism

Moderate: Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, and Gun violence

Minor: Child abuse

julied's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Slavery, and Torture

annabunce's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Read this book. Isabel Wilkerson does a incredible job framing and explaining the American caste system within the context of other caste systems to fully illustrate the history of slavery and slavery's long lasting impact on Black Americans. I feel like reading this book I realized just how successful the American narrative has been at downplaying the horrors and systemic normalized racism faced by Black Americans. Definitely the kind of book that will shift your thinking and make you look at your world in a new way. This pulled back the curtain and made me consider Canada's own caste system in a whole new light. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Violence, Trafficking, Suicide, Slavery, Sexual violence, Rape, Police brutality, Murder, Medical trauma, Incest, Gun violence, Grief, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Antisemitism, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, and Child abuse

plantbasedbride's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

 Wow. What a worldview shattering book.

The way Wilkerson compares the American system to the Caste system in India and the modified Caste system imposed by the Nazis seems, at first, like a stretch. But impeccably organized chapter by impeccably organized chapter, the picture begins to take shape. And by the end of this horrifying yet clarifying work, the comparison seems to be the most natural one you could make.

Concise yet detailed, and perfectly narrated by Robin Miles, this may be the most eye-opening book on race in America that I have ever read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Violence, Child abuse, and Death

mignonne's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Antisemitism, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Slavery, and Torture

miascupoftea's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

It’s a very dark book, but definitely something everyone who can push through the heavy parts should read. very informative and great insights 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia