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zombiezami's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, and Colonisation
Minor: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Sexual harassment, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic
webb_beb's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
The best non-fiction book I’ve read this year. Osterweil offers both a philosophical defense of looting (of course) as well as a critique of “non-violence” and it’s station in the American imaginary. She weaves these arguments into a thorough but engaging retelling of anti-Black violence in American history from the slave trade to the Ferguson uprising. Neither solely history nor philosophy the author’s deliberate personal presence transforms this into something of a manifesto- a construction of the past to serve as a guide for the present.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, and Police brutality
Moderate: Racism