Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Caste: The Lies That Divide Us by Isabel Wilkerson

38 reviews

fanchera's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

annalisenak97's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Absolutely top five of the most important books I'll read this year, maybe ever. Wilkerson offers ample evidence that the US is built on a caste system based on race and compares the American caste system to the castes in India and Nazi Germany. It's so SO compelling and makes a lot of sense, fitting the pieces of our current political landscape together. Wilkerson writes beautifully, and her quality of writing makes a heady concept digestible, accessible, and un-put-down-able. This book was oftentimes difficult to read because of the atrocities it describes, but it's our responsibility to face our history and to have the courage to learn, grow, and change. This work is an excellent tool to help its reader start doing that work. And ultimately it provides hope through radical empathy. Incredible scholarship.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Police brutality

useyourgoodeye's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

This book took me 16 days to read because I had to step away from it a lot to process it fully. Very eye opening and there is a movie out called Origin about the book that I'll be watching soon (Hulu). This is a very difficult and emotional book to get through. It requires you to examine your own life and the lives of others at a level which can make you uncomfortable, sad, and angry. Totally worth it though. It should be used in colleges across the world as required reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

cnjg88's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Blood, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Deportation

jurgbury's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This is a must read to better understand America and the world and how we are set up in our caste systems. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia

randisworld's review against another edition

hopeful informative sad medium-paced

5.0

Amazing book. All Americans should read this book. Everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

readandfindout's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.0

Style/writing: 3.5 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Misogyny

micaelamariem's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

 found this book to be very educational, motivational, and eye-opening. It was interesting, though brutal, to learn the full scale of the history of caste in america and how awful we can be as humans. I think everyone could benefit from reading this. However, though I agree with Wilkerson on everything including the politics of today, I can see how it might polarize people to where they’d miss the point she’s trying to make. I also think the cohesiveness of the narrative could have been better. Still, overall a great read of a dark history and startling present! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

annamay1021's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Colonisation

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

this is such an important read. i think everyone should have to read this. it definitely isn't an easy read though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, and Classism