Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Dlaczego nie rozmawiam już z białymi o kolorze skóry by Reni Eddo-Lodge

23 reviews

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative

5.0

i dont really have anything to say about a book like this, honestly. its something you can only learn from, rather than have sort of criticism on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation

sakisreads's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

✨ Reread ✨

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 ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Colonisation, and Classism

prettynerdy3's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Grief, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism

lenni_sc's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Sexism, Slavery, Colonisation, and Classism

uhm_kai's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I think everybody should read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, Police brutality, Pregnancy, and Classism

lish_e's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Islamophobia, and Colonisation

Minor: Ableism and Mental illness

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Colonisation

meganamelia's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Classism

ellewg's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Xenophobia, and Colonisation

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual content, Police brutality, and Murder

flara's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

Eddo-Lodge states that she owes her respectability to the fact that against all odds, she was able to follow a professional trajectory very similar to those she criticises. She specifically mentions that she speaks and writes like them. As much as this statement makes you think about the way things are, and how they shouldn't be, I cannot disagree with it, because this book truly is very, very digestible. It starts off as a reflective academic-style text, becomes more and more personal throughout, until it morphs into anger-fuelled call for action in the last chapters. When I got to the 3rd chapter 'What is White Privilege?' I found myself reaching for a pencil and underlining important passages, and could not let go of the pencil until the very end. I don't know what essay I'll be writing since I'm no longer in university, but somehow I felt that these quotes were important and I need to make note of them.

Now I must say that as the book progressed, the writing became less fact-based and more emotional. I can't really blame Eddo-Lodge, she has every right to feel outraged. She wrote from her experience, which is experience shared by far too many. We don't need a statistic, an exact number, in order to believe or understand that yes, racism is truly ever-present and encompassing of non-white people's lives. Especially if those numbers had been laid out in previous chapters. I specifically mention this, because it has been pointed out in other reviews. I personally don't mind this, I think there is a need for an outcry where necessary. I haven't read as much as I would have liked about this topic in the past, I have to shamefully admit, therefore my review might be favourable due to this fact. 

I enjoyed reading other people's perspectives, such as the interview (well, not really, but anyway) with Eddo-Lodge's mixed-raced friend, or her Texan white friend. I wish there were more, I think they intensified EL's point. The Nick Griffin interview was quite short, but oh my, so intense. I wanted to punch him through the book. How EL kept her cool during this phone call is beyond me. 

All in all a great, essential read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Minor: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Slavery, Violence, Murder, and Colonisation